MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 17 May 1927, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

“EVE’S LOVER.” THIS LOVE BUSINESS. The woman who makes a romance of business dnd. the man who makes a business of romance: these are the central characters around whom Mrs. W. K Clifford has woven her story, “Eve’s Lover,” which, produced Warner Brothers in screen form, comes to the local theatre on Wednesday. The woman in the case is Eve Burnside, who owns and operates a hug*steel plant. The man is Baron Geralde Maddox, who lives for pleasure. How this man and woman, of such vitally different character, are drawn together, makes a story that scientists assert reflects a condition that is growing more and more important in modern life. The condition, they say, is that women are becoming more and more masculine, and the men more effeminate. Here the man is the clinging vine and the woman the sturdy oak. Irene Rich, Bert Lytell, Clara Bow and Willard Louis are featured in the cast.

‘ * THE STORY OF ZEEBRUGGE. ’ ’

AN IMMORTAL NAVAL EPIC

Friday’s big picture in Shannon will be the film depiction of the attack on Zeebrugge. By the Spring of 1918, the activity of the German U-Boats wa3 beginning to threaten us seriously with starvation, and finally it was decided to bottle up tbe enemy submarines in their chief hornet’s nest at Zeebrugge. On the eve of St. George’s Dav. 1918, this memorable expedition started. “St. George for England” went out the signal from the Warwick, Vice-Admiral Keyes’s Flagship. “May we give the dragon’s tail a damned good twist 1 ?” came back buoyantly from Vindictive. The main object of the raid was the sinking of the three block-ships, Thetis, Intrepid, and Iphigenia ‘across the mouth of the Bruges-Zeebrugge Canal, so as to render it useless as a base for enemy submarines. ' In order to keep bacx enemy reinforcements from the Mole, submarine C 3, in charge of Lieut. Sandford, had been detailed to drive herself between the piles of the Viaduct, and there blow herself and the Viaduct to glory. This she most magnificently did, and her crew were, rescued by a picket boat. For this feat Lieut. Sandord was awarded the V.C. So rapidly had this been achieved, and so dark was the night, that a company of German cyclists, dashing to reinforce their comrades on the Mole were hurled over the gap in the Viaduct into the sea. Many were the deeds of heroism performed in the face of almost certain death, too numerous to detail, but the storming of the Mole, the rescue of the crews of the block-ships, the shambles m the hghttop of the Vindictive, and other glorious episodes are all recorded m this wonderful film. Not till January, 19-1 (two years and three months after Zeebrugge), was the last of the blockships moved sufficiently to enable tlio Channel to be used with .freedom. The great raid on Zeebrugge had most, fully and gloriously succeeded, ana the las., that the enemy saw of the British ships on that St. George’s Day. was the White Ensign on Vindictive fading softly into the darkness.