LIBERY THEATRE.
A picture of a new type is being shown at Liberty, in the shape ot Maurice Maeterlinck’s great drama, “ Moiina Vanna.” The story deals with a little known portion of the world’s history, when Pisa and Herence were independent States, eacn jealous of the other. How a good and pure woman saves the soul of a general, and in doing so saves her own country, is the base of the story, which is wonderfully well worked up from a spectacular viewpoint. As Alonna Vanna, Miss Lee Parry gives a wonderful conception of what the author desired to convey to the public. Another big drama, but of an altogether differ-: cut type, is “Marriage Morals,” in which Tom Moore and Ann Forrest are cast in the stellar roles. It- i.s the kind of picture of which all the spectators think they can foretell the conclusion, but when the conclusion does come it i.s very different from what was anticipated. The Liberty Quality Orchestra, under Mr Howard Moody, plays a. magnificent programme of music in its customary finished man-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17347, 30 September 1924, Page 5
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