MAORI LAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 25 June 1926, Page 2

MAORI LAND PICTURES.

"LITTLE FRENCH GIRL" Saturday.

The "Little French Girl" to be screened at the Maorilaiid to-morrow is adapted from a famous onvel of the same name. "The Little French Girl" was well-known to habitues of the underworld of Paris and her daughter'(Alice Joyce) finds thajt owing to her mother's reputation she cannot meet" with a man she could respect and love and her* mother sends her to England into a new environment.

So it" its that the little French girl discovers a new existence, though she learns to her sorrow that even here folks look most upon a career such as her mother's. Jerry Hamble, son of wealthy parents, falls in love, with Alix, who, by this time, has become quite taken up with Giles, Owen's younger brother. Knowing that Giles secretly loves Toppie Westmacott, Owen's fiancee, the little French girl tries to kid'' herself into believing that she really cares for Jerry, realizing that her mother wisnes her to make a good marriage. But tjiuth W'ill; put, and everything is straightened out in the final scenes. Anthony Jowitt, a new screen "find," plays Owen Bradley. ' Njsil Hamilton is his brother, Giles; and Esther Ralston plays Toppie. Alice Joyce is the mother, always surrounded by a brilliant corterie.

"CALIFORNIA STRAIGHT SHEAD."

Never believe a director. That's the advice from Reginald Denny and the supporting cast of "California Straight Ahead," the Universal-Jewel feature which comes to the Maoriland Theatre on Monday. The opinion was formed during the making of the picture in which Denny is the star. Harry Pollard, the director, took his company out on location on to the highways of California to film scenes of a transcontinental ,motor trip Denny was supposed to toe making. The" company stayed out for four weeks, camped just, like tourists, lived in tents, got into storms, sweltered on the Mojave desert, and gen-, erally had a delightful time. "Now, just wait till we get back to Universal City," Pollard promised them. "Everything will be lovely then. No more touch scenes." So when the company returned they were jubilant. But when 'they began work again at the studio they spent the remainder of the picture going through "ptrop" rain storms, and shooting scenes in which wild animals from the Universal Zoo cavorted about the Bet. "Directors and press agents!" the cast declares. "Don't put any faith in. either of them!"