MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 15 June 1928, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

“THE EXQUISITE SINNER.”

Under the title of "The Exquisite Sinner” , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a screen version of Alden Brook’s popular novel, “Escape,” with Conrad Nagel and Renee Adoree in the leading roles. This new attraction will come to the Shannon Theatre on Saturday. It is the story of a young Frenchman whose longing for romance ended in his shattering' the; bonds of convention that bound him to a drab- existence, and seeking the elusive happiness with gypsies on the open road. Already wealthy, he was disgusted with the »soulless craving for money that was the life ambition of his family, and he found in the carefree, nomadic wandering of the gypsies the simplicity and contentment he had craved. Conrad Nagel has his greatest role as th.e temperamental young Frenchman, whose heart was more in his art than his business. His is a triumph’ of characterisation and an excellent portrayal of the fiction Dominique. As the gypsy girl Renee Adoree is intriguing, provocative and' really charming. GREAT IN ‘ UNSEEING EYES.” Characterised as the most thrilling and picturesque photoplay ever woven around a story of life in and around the majestic Canadian Rockies, “Unseeing Eyes,” a screen version of an Arthur Stringer story, will have its first showing in Shannon on Monday. In making scenes in the vicinity of the Canadian Rockies the “Unseeing Eyes” company achieved several new and distinct records in photoplay making. For the first time in the. history of the motion picture industry aeroplanes play a predominating part in a film of the great Canadian Northwest and, thrqugh their medium, the new film is said to have the most gripping and picturesque scenes of that snowclad terrain ever filmed. Many of the most striking scenes were made around Castle Rock,, in the Columbia *Valley, between the Selkirk Range and the Canadian Rockies. Three huge planes were utilised and they soared more than 10,000 feet above sea level. The filming of the picture involved many dangers, as the hundreds of small vqlleys thereabout have extremely strong air currents. |