MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 4 July 1924, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

TOM MIX DOES SOME NEW STUNTS Tom Mix faces more perils than the well-known Pauline herself in “Eyes of the Forest,” at the Maoriland on Saturday. How close hei came -to being blown to the place where all good movie actors go may be realised from the fact that- about two hundred pebbles were extracted from, his back as the i;eslt of the premature explosion of dynamite in one scene in which the roadway was blasted. But Tom rode through on Tony, and finished the scene, despite his wounds. At another time in the picture Mix, riding to escape a vicious band of .lumber thieves, leaps from Tony to an airplane. He clutches the" axle between the landing wheels of the plane,Which dives to within ten feet* of the ground, and is-lifted thousands of feet into* the air to “safety.” I ■ “A MILLION TO BURN.” ! “I’ve just inherited a million dollars and don’t know what t-o do with it. I’ve never handled real money or faced hard facts about, human nature before this. If . you’ve got a plan to help me spend my million, come and see me. I want, to do* good.” That’s; • the task that Tom Gwynne took when he suddenly inherited a million in Universal picture, “A Million to Burn,” starring Herbert Ra-wlinson, to be shown next Monday. Did newfound frie'nds help him sf>end it? You’ll say they did when you see this exciting, v adventurous and romantic, story of a good-natured philanthro-pist-up against the dizzy dames and subtle, schemers of modern society ; -