MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 12 June 1928, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

♦ "LAD**S AT PLAY." Wednesday's picture is entitled "Ladies at Play." Ann Harper is to inherit six million dollars provided within a certain period after the reading of the will she marries the. man who meets the approval of her /two . spinster aunts who have been disinherited. The aunts make things so hard for Ann, and decree that Ann marry . "an eminently respectable honest and industrious—sober and economical young man" which isn't at all to Ann's liking. Sha begs young Gil Barry as young clerk to marry her as he is liked by the aunts, offering ■• him five thousand dollars if he will do so. He refuses as he really loves the girl, and is insulted at the suggestion ■ of being a cats-paw. Ann then succeeds in compromising the aunts so completely that they are glad to arrange, a truce and eventually agree to her. marriage.

"THE FLAG LIEUTENANT."

FINE BEITISH PICTUEE

Their Majesties the King and Queen, have been seldom known to visit the cinema. It is true that special screenings have been done at the various Eoyal Palaces, but when the British picture, "The Flag Lieutenant" was ■ screened in London, Their Majesties saw the picture along with Mr and Mrs Public. The Prince of Wales, too, has seen the picture, not once, but several times, as have other members.: . . of the Eoyal family. "The Flag Lieutenant" is a thrilling romance of the Navy, of a man's sacrifice for his friend, produced with the active co-operation of the British • Navy. For once the Navy cast aside tradition,,and lias assisted in the civilian production of a picture. True, it is a thrilling tale of the Navy, a romance that tells of a young officer's sacrifice, so "that his friend might get. promotion, and backed by the Navy and their valuable help, "The Flag . Lieutenant" is one of the most pretentious of screen offerings.'