MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 26 June 1928, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“THE STOLEN BRIDE.” Lloyd Hughes makes the opportunity in “The Stolen Bride,” a First National Picture to be screened on Wednesday, in which lie plays opposite Billie Dove, star of the production. “The Stolen Bride” gives him a cjiance to escape being “typically American.” He portrays a young Hungarian who returns to his native land in pursuit of his sweetheart only to discover, when he steps across the border, that he cannot depart until he had served his allotted three years in the army under the compulsory military service system. The story is a comedydrama, staged.with an eye for color and the atmosphere of that picturesque country in the day before the World War, and his part gives Hughes opportunity for a characterization that is out of the ordinary.

“THE CRADLE SNATCHERS.” “Cradle Snatchers,” a mirth-cover-ed sermon, to be screened on Friday, will bring gale after gale of laughter from every audience that witnesses it. Without exaggeration, this is the best comedy-drama for many a year. This story, of three wives who find that their husbands go hunting, not for ducks as they claim, but for chickens, and who turn the tables on their deceivers by hiring three college boys to make love to them to arouse their husbands’ jealousies, is screamingly funny. The sub-titles Avhich accompany the action, the casting, direction, and the story itself make a fine picture. Louise Fazenda, gorgeous blonde, who insists on having a real Spanish lover with a kick, while she is at the business of getting even with hubby, is ideally cast, and gives a perfect performance of a neglected wife who turns loose for the time of her life, while J. Farrell , Macdonald, , as her duck-hunting husband, who finds too late that his .wife was not as . easy as she looked, will bring down the house. Ethel Wales and Dorothy Phillips, as the other two wives, and ■ the three college boys hired to act the Romeos for the occasion, do their share toward making “Cradle Snatchers” the unqualified success ■it is. An entertainment supreme from every angle.