MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 8 February 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

+. "THE AGE OF INNOCENCE." '«Each age considers the previous; one the age of innocence," believesEdith Wharton, whose "The Age -of* Innocence" will play at the Maoriian<r Theatre on Wednesday, with a cast - headed by Beverly Bayne, Elliott Dexter and Edith Roberts. ' ■ The young flapper of eighteen to» dav thinks her sister of twenty-five hopeless and belonging to a simpler age, while the girl of 25 thinks she it , far in advance of her sister who is her . senior by five years. -" "The Age of Innocence," winner of.' the Pulitzer Prize for the best AmerW can novel'of the year, was a "bestseller" by virtue of its being an tertainijng story that appeals to air." classes of fiction readers; by its being .. a striking picture of the highest society in the days when sophistication -• was just beginning to creep in; by ,_ having an unusually charming heroine who by word and deed rebels at prud* , ish conventions, and by having a hero who hesitates between two loves; by its plot holding interest keyed up every minute; and, finally by its human char- • actors full of the breath of life.

"NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET." • PETER B. KYNE'S GREAT STOBY. .' "Never the Twain Shall Meet," th« " Metro-Goldw|yn-Mayer special screen . adaptation of Peter B. Kyne's famous novel, was actually filmed in Tahiti—comparatively elose to Australia. It . is a story. which holds particular in- '. terest for us all, as it deals in a singu* larly clear and graphic manner with , the perils whieh attend the mixing of the white races with those of colour; • how pure white stock rapidly runs to.seed the combined influence of tropic indolence and the non-observance of civilised ways of life. "Never the Twain Shall Meet" in its original form was, frank —amazingly so, and in thu picture version nothing of the original message has been lost, rather has it. g-riiied additional strength. With all the tropic beauty of Tahiti as a gorgeous background, the picture . tells of Tamea, the half-caste princess and Dan Pritchard the silent man of the West, who fell a victim to her agecld allure, married her according to native custom—and regretted it The process by whieh his moral fibre is destroved, his personal pride stifled, and all but killed by the laxity and languidness of island life is driven home forceably and unmistakably. As Pritchard, Beit Lytell paints a picture of mental and moral disintegration that leaves but little to the imagination. Anita Stewart, as the half-savage, half civilised princess, is magnetic and dashing, all primal urg-3 and feminine attraction.