WOMEN WILL LIKE “WAGES FOR WIVES.”

Shannon News, 7 May 1926, Page 3

WOMEN WILL LIKE “WAGES FOR WIVES.”

Every woman will smile understandingly and tlie men .will chuckle sympathetically when they see the, way the husbands keep house after tiheir wives have deserted them in the William Fox- production of “Wages for Wives.” This picture, adapted from the John Golden comedy drama “Chicken Feed,” will show at the Maoriland Theatre on Saturday. Claude Gillingwater, Earle Foxe and Creighton Hale are the three husbands whose wives desert them when the family financial question proves too hard to answer. Jacqueline Logan, Zasu Pitts and Margaret Soddon are the wives in question. Margaret Livingston adds a new vamp role to her list.

HOOT GIBSON ON MONDAY. Wanting to do one thing but forced by fear of death to do another was the event hi “Spok Ranch,” a. Univ-ersnl-Gibs on special which will be at the Maoriland Theatre on Monday which led to a. series of comic and also serious situations for Hoot. Gibson and his leading lady, Helen Ferguson. Miss Ferguson plays the part of a Spanish girl who is held prisoner in a ranch house which is believed to be haunted. A gang of half a dozen ruffians are holding her and her father in an effort to obtain from them the secret location of a valuable mine on the ranch property. When Hoot enters, playing the part, of Bill Bangs, a Texas cowboy prospecting foir gold on the edge of the Mojave desert, he finds that the girl, Elvira, is apparently a prisoner but be doesn’t comprehend the entire situation, and in a talk with, the girl she first starts to tell him the truth but then changes her story when -she sees herself threatened through the portiers. . This is just one of the many thrills in the picture which is brimming with action and humour, love and youth.