MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 10 February 1922, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

GREAT AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC TO-NIGHT. The crack shearer and bush dandy —Tom Mitchell; our old friend "Oneeyed Bogan, he ol' the big frame tuul bigger heart, meet us on the shearing board, and after the cut-out at Murraburra Station they show the way to the Widow Stiffner's far-fam-ed bush pub, "The Shearers' Arms." Here Steelman and Smith (both birds oi evil omen) are met with Andy He-, gan and the fascinating Tessie—the dispenser of liquid joy at the Stiffner bar, and a host of others that play their many parts in "While the Billy Boils," due at the Maoriland to-night. TOM MIX—SATURDAY. Tom Mix, noted William Fox star, will ride into town on Saturday with another breezy Western picture. He will be seen at the Maoriland Theatre in "Hands Off."' Needless to say, being a Mix picture, it is replete with action. Probably one of the biggest things Mix has done, it took more than two months to film the thrilling incidents so vividly narrated in written story. Among the big scenes is a stampede of a herd of wild horses, staged with real western realism, in the path of this onrushing herd is a four-year-old youngster, snatched tip just in. time by the intrepid Mix and lifted to safety on his saddle horn. This is said to be a moment of suspense rarely found or dared in shadowland drama: Throughout the picture Mix will have ample opportunity to prove again his prowess with lariat and trusty "six," and a distinct novelty will be added in a comedy role interpreted by Mix's favourite horse, who is seen in a series of unusual close-ups.