MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 23 July 1926, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“PATHS TO PARADISE.”

Raymond Griffith had urgent need of a beautiful necklace belonging to another man and so did other crooks. But Raymond invited himself as a i guest toi the house and posed as a de- [ tective. The real detectives ’ decided ! that they were less likely to be known j to the crooks if they let- Griffith have his way and he did. Hie fell in love with Molly, another crook and took the necklace front right under the noses of tlie police. You’ll laugn till your sides ache at “Paths to Paradise,” the Paramount laughter special at the Maoriland Theatre, on Saturday. REX BEACH’S “GOOSE WOMAN.” Mystery and astounding surprises are the outstanding emotion aroused by Rex Beach’s story of a newspaper and'a crime in Clarence Brown’s production, “The Gcose Woman,” a Uni-versal-Jewel, coming to Shannon on Monday. In the role of “The Goose Woman,” Louise Dresser gives one of the most outstanding characterizations of her career as character actress, playing with much sympathy the part of the once great opera singer who loses her voice, takes to drink and lives on a dirty little farm, becoming known as a notorious drunken slattern. The pathetic desire of the woman for the limelight of publicity which she mice enjoyed as a stage favourite gains expression through a murder on a neighbouring farm, the woman concocting a fantastic ‘yarn 1 to get her name .in the papers. Having, hated her son all his life, because she lost her voice at his birth, she hears that he is planning to marry an actress. The son is and charged with the murder as a result of the faked story of the mother.

Horrified at this turn “The Goose Woman” reveals her secret, which is the beginning of a strange and astounding denouement. The other members of the cast include Jack Pick-ford and Constance Bennett.