MAORILAND PICTURES

Shannon News, 11 September 1928, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES

“THE LODGER.” Wednesday’s presentation at the Maoriland Theatre is Mrs Belloc Lowndes’ story “The Lodger,” a-Willikm Fox British release, in.which Ivor Novello takes the name part. Press opinion is very eulogistic of this pieture. The Eveniiig News says it is “a fascinating entertainment, and as an essay ir film technique it ranks with the beet, films ever made.” The Kinematograph Weekly describes it as “a brilliant British production which at once raises the prestige of .this country’s output. It is finely acted, imaginatively produced, and magnificently photographed. A film to which one can apply that much mis-used word, ‘.super.’” , ‘ “ANNIE LAURIE” ON FRIDAY. -Never in all her brilliant career hits Lillian Gish had a role so entirely suited to her glorious tajent as that, of “Annie Laurie”—the “Scottish Joan of Arc.” In this "world-renowned -romance, based on the best-loved of Scottish ballads, she as unpreceudented scope for the tenderness, the subtle lure, and the sincere ’emotion which she invariably infuses into her roles, holding her millions of admirers spell-bound. From the first awe-inspiring scene, thie Metro-Goldwyn picture version of “Annie Laurie” breathes the rugged Highland spirit that has survived the centuries, and reproduces every phase of this well-beloved story with magnificently colourful realism. The mighty drama of the Highlands, the gloiioUs spectacle of enormous clan gatherings, the personal rivalries, jealousies, and hatreds of Highland chieftains and their clansmen, and last but not least every touching phase of the sweetest love story in Scottish history all are presented in a vivid kaleidoscope of magnificent entertainment, authentic to the last detail. ' _ The' tragic feud between the Campbells and the MacDonalds that culminated in the Massacre of Glencoe —the love of lan MacDonald, the mighty Highland warrior, for Annie, the beautiful and capricious daughter of Sir Robert Laurie- —love that turned to black and bitter hatred whew it was huniiUateJd, jhave 'been brought into bold relief in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer s lavishly produced screen version of “Annie Laurie,” with the screen’s greatest actress in the title role. “Annie Laurie” wilFbe screened on Friday night.