MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 16 April 1929, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

WEDNESDAY— 11 HOME, JAMES. ’ ’

A highly entertaining society comedy will be screened at the Maoriland Theatre on Wednesday. It is entitled "Home, James,” and has to do with the adventures of a country girl in a millionaire’s mansion on Fifth Avenue, where x shc meets the millionaire son, who poses as the chauffeur. What happens subsequently makes an engrossing story. This is a Universal Jewel production, and the heroine’s part is taken by Laura la Plante.

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. "THE GARDEN OF ALLAH,” WITH ALICE TERRY.

As a novel, "The Garden of Allah” has remained steadily in public favour for a quarter of a century. Telling a story that is ageless, depicting human characters that aie just, as real to-day as when the author first created them and presenting ' with unparalleled dramatic force inan’s eldest mental travail—his love for a woman struggling with his sense of duty—time could not diminish the appeal of such a story, endowed as it was by the magic touch of a master of dramatic fiction, "Tho Garden of Allah” comes to the screen, given added beauty and still greater dramatic power by the mastery of Rex Ingram and backed by the vast production resources of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The -pieturisation of tli'is powerful and unusual story, which will be shown at the Maoriland on Thursday and Friday, was carried out in the locales described by Robert Hicliens at .Biskra, Algeria, a sparkling green oasis thrown down amid a sea of sand; on .the great Algerian .desert, where a wind stonn of tremendous magnitude was employed' to furnish the picture with one of the most spectacular thrills ever provided solely by nature. The principal roles are enacted by Alice Terry and Ivan Petrovitch.