MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 8 October 1926, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

-L —— LOLO MONTEZ’S LOVE STORY. - ... ft There have been as many stories circulated of the origin of Lolo Mortez, the madcap of Europe portray-, ed by Betty Compson in “The Palace of Pleasure,” at the Maorilaaid Theatre on Saturday, as there were astounding episodes in tile life of this celebrated siren of the - Old World. . According to various biographers'she was bom in Spain, in Geneva, in Cuba, in India and in Turkey. As to her parentage, one author makes her tile child of .a Spanish Gipsy, another, the daughter of Lord Byron; another, of a native prince of India, and so on, until they have given this interesting (person more fathers than there are signs in the zodiac. Lolo Montez was bom in Limerick, Ireland, in 1824.. Her father was a son of Sir Edward Gilbert and her mother was an Oliver of Castle Oliver. Her family name was of the Spanish noble family descended from Count de Montalvo. The Montalvos were originally of Moorish Mood. Among the men who fell in love with Lolo Montez and whose lives she swayed at the height of their careers were Fanz Lizst, King Louis of Bavaria, King Frederick Williams, of Prussia, Emperor Nicholas of Russia and his brother, Duke Michael, Prince Schulkoski of Poland, Prince Paskewich of Poland as well as some of the world’s greatest artists and authors.

It wajs at the height of her. career in tile royal court of Saxony, Prussia, Poland and Russia that Lolo Montez went to 1 Paris where she met the young and gifted Duiarrier, editor of La Presse, who proves to he the one ueal love of her madcap career. Dujarrier died in a duel over Lolo, preventing their manage. The spirit of this woman is illustrated by the fact that she raced to the scene of thi duel, intent upon taking the place of her lover—for she was an expert shot—but, arrived too late, Duiarrier was dead. • In “Tiie Palace of Pleasure’ Lolo Montez is brought to a more modern age and the scene is laid in Portugal and Spain. Th e story is a, stirring love tale in a setting of wild revolution and the picture offers iomance as colourful as it is gripping. Edmund Lowe and Betty Compson have the featured roles 'in, this Fox Films production. ,

THE CIRCUS CYCLONE. -c

Diving; from the peak of a circus tent to the back of a careening horse is an experience most people wouldn’t relish —but there is on© man who “eats” it up. This is Art Acord king of screen daredevils, world champion broncho rider, and idol of levers of film thrills. Acord does this startling trick in “The Circus Cyclone” coming to the Maonland Theatre on Monday. , The story is a combination of tne sensations- of the circus and the 'thrills of the Western range. It deals with the love, of a cowboy for a girl rider in a circus that plays a Western border town, and his battle against the entire- circus, to- salve her from a plot of tlie brutal ringmaster owning the show. . Daring circus stunts vie witn thrills of the range; a- sensational mob battle adds to the trilling detail, and there is a battle on a careening automobitev? 11 a cll “ tnal tops it all for hair-raising suspence.