LOCAL PICTURE PROGRAMME.

Shannon News, 21 July 1922, Page 3

LOCAL PICTURE PROGRAMME.

HARRY QAREY TO-MORROW. •Short Synopsis of Story.—Location: Broken Buckle, Western town. Proprietor of Headlight Saloon, a tough customer. His partner tough, too. Former has a sister, not. like her brother. Is a school teacher and is ashamed of brother’s business. A stranger comes to town—says he will start new gambling place. She gets angry, but likes him and wants to reform him. Whips him, then ,hugs him. He continues to build his gambling resorL The brother and partner get angry—threaten him. He worries not. The day of the opening of the new resort arrives. The town turns out. It looks bad for the stranger. Then—it was just what the town needed.

A PARAMOUNT COMEDY. < A cast of unusual excellence, -includ,v ing Madge. Bellamy, Thomas LI. Ince’s latest appears in support of Douglas Mac Lean in his latest ' Paramount Comedy, “Passing Thru,” which will be shown in Shannon cn ' Monday. Mr Mac Lean is cast to fine advantage in , the role 11 of Billy Barton, a young bank clerk who gets into' difficulties through, attempting to lessen the misfortunes of others. Miss Blllainy is Mary Spivins, a lovely girl for whom Bills ; a lot more trouble. One Hoffman offers a .humorous part as James Spivins, Mary’s father, a grasping and straight-laced small-town banker. Willis Robards and Edith Yorke, as Farmer Harkins and his wife, are pleasingly humorous, while Fred Natheaux i t s - a thoroughly hattable villain. '

“OVER THE HILL."

A REMARKABLE PICTURE,

“Oyer the HilV’-to be seen at the local theatre on Tuesday, has been creating some .wonderful records in the different towns and cities where it has already been screened in New ~ Zealand. It. is said to "be the simplest story ever put' to a picture. There .are no elaborate scenes, or big dramatic sutuations; it is simply the

story o,f a poor ,old mother who, af- * ter working her fingers to the. bone ' to bring up her family of six, is, when they are old enough to be of

some use to her, deserted by them and leveiitually allowed to drift “Over the Hill” to the poorhouse. She is deserted by thenk all with the exception •of one, -Johnny, the reputed black .sheep of the family, who returns and

restores (her to her .home and happi-

aiess. One would be a very cynic, who who could watch the story unfold without t feeling touched. The opening "scenes are screamingly funny, and lift the spectator to the height of ecstacy only a few minutes afterwards to dash him to the depths of •despair as he (or she) sees the un.complaining sacrifices made by Mr ißenton. The box plan is at Mis Aldeisey's. "'Book early and avoid disappointment” 'is- the managerial advice. Booking is free.