MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 12 November 1929, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

♦ ■ "EYES OP THE UNDERWORLD." A tense underworld drama, with numerous situations that flash thrill upon thrill to the audience, is "Eyes of the Underworld," the Universal melodrama which opens at the Shannon Theatre on Wednesday. It is the prize picture of the year n-j far as excitement is concerned. Gun fire, fist fights, perilous jumps across yawning depths between skyscrapers, and an excellent automobile chase between four ears help keep the audience in a state of pleasant unrest. "Eyes of ihe Underworld" is the story of the, "Racketeers," a dangerous gang, who murder the publisher of a newspaper v.hon he throatcns to print evidence of their activities. With the help of a young sportsman the publisher's daughter learns the identity of the gang and effects their capture by the police. Bill Cody and Sally Blane are co-featured in the leading roles. Both, give outstanding performances, Cody especially by his daring stunts.

"ROSES OF PICARDY." Power and characterisation are the distinctive -features of the British Masterpiece "Roses of Picardy," to be screened at the Maoriland Theatre on Friday evening. It is a presentation of boldly-drawn character studies, amazingly real and human, cadi expressing vital problems individual and intimate, yet common to all classes of men and women involved in the war. There is Madeleine, a Flemish tenant farmer's daughter, urged by the spirit of generations symbolised in "The Spanish Farm," which has withstood the bloody wars of more than two centuries in the cockpit of Europe. To Skene, the young British officer, War means at first an adventure, then serious business —a job to be done—and afterwards a memory of murder and muddy manners and morals, to be preserved aj an object lesson for all time. The working out of their destinies is as much the concern of the audience as of the characters themselves, whilst, therefore, the war forms atmosphere and background, it provides a cause for intimate drama, sincerely and humanly portrayed. The climax is the culmination of a well-conceived dramatic plot.