“OVER THE BORDER.”

Shannon News, 20 July 1923, Page 3

“OVER THE BORDER.”

, and the arguments for and against 'it, stories of bootleggers and their apprehension and • punishment, fill the newspapers. The liqu.or question is still one of the grave problems of the day. It a,fiords .many portunities far dramatic ’ treatment, and one of the best of these is disclosed in “Over the Border,”, featuring Betty Compson and Tom. Moore, which will be shown at the Mapriland Theatre on Saturday evening. Betty Compson, as the daughter of the man who'' smuggles' liquor LMn wholesale quantities across the United State-s-Canadian, boundary line, and -the, sweetheart .of*a Royal Mounted policeman charged Ayith enforcing .the- law, has ; a fine, emotional role, 'while the part opposite’ her, that of a mounte-'’ policeman, is ably played by 'Tom Moore. The picture was taken in'.the mountains, amid the snows, iurid is pictorially very beautiful. Indivi'dua.llv.' every scene is a gem,, and in its selection for inclusion in the picture, marks'the artistic sense which made Penrhyn Stan laws a; power in the artist 'world before becoming a. director. The supporting company is wholly adequate.

“BURNING DAYLIGHT.”

Tn quest ,of the yellow muck called void!- Mitdhell .Lewis'as .the star in Mack Ton don? 5 famous story ?Buraiiig Daylight,” at the Maoriland'Theatre on Monday night, plays the role of a Yukon prospector in the-days' of the big gold rush to the Yukon. After striking it rich he returns to New York to grapple with-the finance king ,o.n the Stock. Exchange,- Vividly doey the story show his fight against the machinations of a crooked mining pro moter, to save his fortune and the girl he loves. The rare scene's also of the ice hound Yukon with its stern forbidding countenance, a land where only the fit survive and the weak gq to the-wail. : '‘Burning Daylight” 'i r one-of tihe greatest stories of the, Yu-kon-’that ha.s ever come-to the phreßw: apd.vjsv.a y-ivid .picturisation' of■ Jack. London’s well-known work. ;