MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 19 March 1926, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

"LOCKED' DOORS." William de Millets newest -Paa-a-mount production, "Locked Doors," featuring Betty Compson, Theodore Roberts, Kathlyn Williams, Theodore Von Eltz and Robert Edeson in the principal roles, comes to the Maoriland Theatre next Saturday. The story is a domestic drama lightened' with many bright comedy touches, and tells of what happens when a young -aehitect falls iir love with the beautiful wife of his" friend and 'benefactor. They botlt meet, neither knowing the identity of the other, at a trdut stream way back in the mountains. But it is not until the boy is invited to his employer's home and there finds out who the girl really is that trouble begins.

"THE TEASER."

"The Teaser,'' in which Laura La 'Plante introduces a new kind of screen flapper to theatredom,,. is the attraction at the Maoriiand Theatre on Monday. Starring Laura La Plante, with Pat O'Malley in a featured role, this new Universal Jewel is said to be one of the outsanding comedy-dramas of the year. It is an adaptation of the famous magazine story' by Adelaide Matthews and Martha Stanley and is presented with a large cast of wellknown screen artists in support of the two stars. Miss La Plante*plays the role of a girl who falls in love with a cigar drummer (Pat O'Malley), only to find that his breezy ways and loud raiment don't strike her family very well. Then, to get even when her aunt interferes in this odd love-affair; she proceeds to flirt with all the married men in their set. Complications come thick and fast—for one angry wife threatens to manic her in a divorce suit—another in vowing revenge because of an innocent flirtation that didn't look as "harmless as it was—and then the cigar-drum-mer returns—after having taken lessons in etiquette from a deposed duke. Of course, he gets jealous. Hilarious situations pile one on the other, and the denouement is very surprising. Through it rums a thread of romance. A couple of thrills add to the swiftness of the plot.

"THE LIGHTHOUSE BY THE SEA."

On Wednesday evening a picture entitled "The Lighthouse by the Sea" which has recently 'been scrensd as a special at the Be Luxe Theatre, Wellington, and which had a most successful'run, will be screened at the Maoriland Theatre. This fine picture has a good supporting programme. The proceeds from the entertainment. are being donated by the proprietors to the Town Baby Fund in connection with the Baby Carnival, and as only ordinary prices (Is anil l s 6d) will 1 be the charge for this special tlie proprietors, should be rewarded with a bumper house.