“MAN TO MAN” ON SATURDAY.

Shannon News, 8 December 1922, Page 2

“MAN TO MAN” ON SATURDAY.

A special super-feature will hold the screen at the Maoriland (at ordinary prices) on Saturday night. It is entitled “Man to* Man.” It is a tremendous drama of adventure and romance in the Far West, the stoiy of an outcast who fell heir tp the broad ranges of his father’s ranch, and who came back from the Land of the Forgotten to wrest, it from its enemies—and who fell in TBre with the sweetest girl you ever saw. A drama of stirring events from beginning to end—whirlwind action, engrossing suspense, appealing romance and dramatic situations—in short, a fitting picturisation of. Jackson Gregory’s world-famous novel. One big feature is■ a wild stampede of cattle in the path of which stand the hero and heroine. Their escape is thrilling. “STRAIGHT IS THE WAY.”

On Monday night a remarkable drama-romance entitled “Straight is the Way,” will be screened. Two crooks from New York, “Catt Carter” and “Loot” Follett, drift into Sands Point, Long Island, hoping to replenish their pockets. They come to the old home of Aunt Mehitabel, where she lives with her niece Dorcas. Jonathan Squoggs, a loan shark, is pressing Aunt. Mehitabel to pay his 5000

dollars in liquidation of a mortgage he holds on her homestead, and the old widow and her niece are in despair. The numerous burglaries which have been committed since the advent of the crooks prompts Constable Whipple to send to New York lor detectives, and meening the constable, avlio

recognised him as a stranger, Carter poses as a city detective. Aunt Mehitabel is the heir of Henry Ort, who is supposed to have left a treasure somewhere. She and Dorcas decided to appeal to the ouija board for information regarding its where abouts. While they are asking questions, they are overheard by Carter and Follett. 'The former returns to New York and obtains from a “fence’ a pot of treasure, which he plants in a hay mow

with a view of having the two women find it. When they ask the ouija board about the location of the treasure, they invent some “spirit” rappings by "the aid of which Aunt Mehitibel and Dorcas find the treasure. They exhibit the .valuables to the amazed townsfolk, whom they tell of the Avonderful deed of Ouija. .lonathan Squoggs is among those who go to the old homestead to see the remarkable find, and his cupidity is

aroused, That night, a burglar enters the old homestead. Carter goes through the cellar to the inhabited part of the homestead and has a fight Avith the robber in the dark. The latter is throAvn down the stairs and Carter and Follett. flee. Constable Whipple arrests the burglar, who turns out to be Squoggs himself. Carter re-

turns to New York, reforms, and ho and Follett, Avho' also decides to quit his career of crime, return all the property stolen from tlieir victims. Carter gets a job as a travelling salesman, and going back to the homestead, nieets Dorcas, for love of Avhom he hod reformed, and now, having a clean conscience, he asks her to marry him and she consents.