LAUGHTER AND THRILLS.

Shannon News, 21 December 1923, Page 3

LAUGHTER AND THRILLS.

“The Custard Cup,” the William Fox special featuring Mary .Carr, which comes to- the Maoriland Theatre on Saturday evening, is a brigjht and entertaining /story o.U modern life, filled with sunshine and option-; ism. Tile characters are ail human, many of them delightfully so, and t/hq humour is rich and plentiful. Skilfully blended into tile plot are a number of sensational episodes, a. thrilling |3iteamboat fire and rescue scenes ’being among them. A novel feature of this incident is the introduction of a'hydroplane in the-work of .rescue. A raid on a counterfeiter’s den which-involves “P,enzie,” the character played by Mary .Carr, who madia such a hit in “Over the Hill,” is another ,of the dramatic episodes of tile picture, Myrta Bonillas, Miriam Battista, Jerry Devine., and Ernest McKay are in the cast. A Clyde Cook comedy, “High and Dry,” and a World’s News will also be screened. SINGLE HANDED. A small town in Kansas, the home of cyclones and grasshoppers, is the locale of ‘Single Handed,” th.e Universal photoplay in which Hoot, .Gibson stars at the_jMaorilaiid Theatre next Monday. The story, written and directed by Edward Sedgwick gives Gibson the finest comedy role of his career, it- is said. The story is not to be taken seriously, as' "spectators will find out before the fifth reel, for it is a burlesque of all that dreaming youths and mooning maids hold dear.