MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 1 August 1924, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

"HOODMAN BLIND." Saturday's star picture is an old stage (favourite, "Hoodman Blind," by two of the foremost playwrights of their day, Wilson Barrett and. Henry Arthur Jones. The story is a good old-fashioned melodrama, with all the accessories that the cinematograph permits and the result is a gripping narrative that holds the audience from start to finish. "THE THRILL CHASER." Hoot Gibson will be the central figure in Monday's programme. Some of the amusing incidents of daily life in the motion picture studios of Universal City, California, are shown in "The Thrill Chaser." A raw amateur of an extra .man, right off the ranch, caught his Roman spear in a very important rope on a set and pulled the set down with a crash that rivalled "The I-'ist Days of .Pompeii," which is what the company was filming. This same extra man, not used to camera technique, wandered :bn to everyone's set in front of cameras and ruined fine, emotional scenes—these are some of the humorous experiences which are told in the story.