MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 1 November 1929, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

BILLXIT DOVE IN’ “ADORATION.”

Gorgeously beautiful Billie Dove never appeared to better advantage than in "Adoration," her newest First National picture which is to be screen ed in Shannon on Saturday.

In exquisite garb, with a role that calls for stirring. emotional acting, and supported by a superb cast, shy has a splendid opportunity for again proving her ability as well as once more assuring us that there is no lovelier woman gracing the screen to-day. The story deals with the plight of Russian royalty and aristocracy following the revolution. They flee to Faris au i there their destinies arc worked cut.

Several arresting types are found in the picture. Lucy Deraine in the parr of the maid to the princess, a good role, is a former UFA star, known as "the girl with the million dollar legs," a genuine beauty from Budapest. Nich olas Soussauin, a native of Crimea, and former Russian stage star, is the villain; .Nicholas Bela, of the Comedie Francais, in Paris, and the Gaiety stock company in Budapest, is the sup-er-valet, Ivan.

BETTY COMPSON IN "THE LADYBIRD." One of the world’s gayest of annual revelries, surely the most famous on the American continent, is the New Orleans Mardi Gras Carnival Thousands are attracted yearly to this gala festival of merry-making. The Mardi Gras, however, though an American institution of many years, was never presented in motion pictures until the recent Chadwick production of the William Dudley Pelley story "The Ladybird," which is released by Master Pictures. Betty Compson, as the sensational, masked dancer of the Red Domino Cafe, is starred in the picture.