MAORI LAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 20 March 1928, Page 3

MAORI LAND PICTURES.

WEDNESDAY—“LOST AT THE FRONT.”

“All army of pretty women!” is a statement that just misses being an actual fact in “Lost at the Front,” a hilarious war comedy of an entirely new • sort, that. will feature the entertainment bill at the Maoriland Theatre on Wednesday. It misSes because a few of the women in the feminine army used in the picture are plump, a few* grotesquely angular. But the majority who appear in scenes in which the famous Russian Battalion of Death figure, are pulchritude itself!. “Lost at the Front,” co-stars George Sidney and Charlie Murray, with Natalie Kingston, First National leading lady and Wampas Baby Star for 1927, as its eye-taking feminine attraction. The principal locale of the story, is the Russian front during the World War. Murray upsets all his previous comedy records as an Irish policeman who gets tangled up in the Russian Army. Georse Sidney, of “Potash and Perlimitter” state fame, also outdoes himself as Murray’s comedy team-mate, in the vide of a* German' reservist called to the front. In riotous action that includes the Battalion of Death, however, Sidney and Murray “flee” undor various’flags, ; and even submit to examination as candidates for The feminine battalion.

FRIDAY—AN ADAPTATION . OF

“MANON LESCAUT.”

An attraction quite out of the ordinary will be presented on Friday evening, in “His Lady,” which is adapted from the famous opera, “Manon Lesenut,” and which features John Barrymore and Dolores Costello. The story is briefly as follows: —Fabien, a novice on his way to enter the Church, rescues Manon from her abductors. He renounces the Church for Manon, who is persuaded by her brother’s interests to leave him; he eventually finds her in the Court of the King. 1 . Earning the displeasure of the King,'she is banished to Louisiana. Fabien manages to join the same ship, and finally rouses the prisoners to mutiny off the coast of America. In the fight Fabiep manages to escape with Manon, and reaches shore, freedom, and happiness.