MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 12 April 1929, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“NO OTHER WOMAN.” Two men —one time fast friends — toss a coin to decicle the future of the -wife of one of them. Both men love the girl. This is one of the tense situations in “No Other Woman,” Lou Tellegeu’s production for Fox Films, which will be screened on Saturday at the Maoriland Theatre with Dolores Del Rio, Ben Bard and Don Alvarado in the triangle roles, Ben Bard is the husband who spends his wife’s entire fortune at the gambling tables of Southern France and then forges liis friend’s name to a check to cover his losses. The coin-flipping episode follows in the wake of the forgery. It is a thrilling and intensely dramatic situation —one of many in this colourful drama of primitive passions in fashionable life.

“THE HAWKE’S NEST.” Monday’s picture, ‘-‘The Hawke’s Nest,” marks a new departure for Milton Sills, who appears in the early part of the story as a disfigured war veteran with a make-up equally as good as-anything Lon Chaney has achieved in recent years. The story, which concerns two underworld resorts operated largely to thrill tourists, is handled in unique manner by Benjamin Christensen, who achieves some of the'finest trick camera effects that have been seen. Sills'operates one of these. underworld ■ cafes for tourists, while Montagu Love another underworld gangster, operates a rival establishment, which is attempting to put Sill’s place, “The -Hawke’s Nest,” out'of business through framing Sills’ partner, played by Mitchell Lewis. The enmity between Sills and Love is deepened through Sills protecting the dancer ; played by. Doris Kenyon, who is 'sought by Love. Mystery, thrills, and the tense atmosphere of the underworld furnishes the background for this fa-st-moving -drama, one of the best in which Sills has appeared for many months. A particularly admirable performance is given bjr-the-dis-tinguished Chinese actor, Sojin.