MAORILAND PICTURES.
Human, wholesome, humorous, and sparkling is Thomas Meighan’s new Paramount picture, “Back Home and Broke,” which is to be the teat are oi the local theatre on Wednesday next. George Ade, the humorist, whose fables have made him one of the best known and most popular of American writers, is the author. The' story tells of a young man who leaves his home town to win success in tne great West. He and his motner ere in distress, his father, supposedly wealthy, having died, and left him penniless. Snubbed hy former acquaintances, he goes away, and upon returning a few years later an apparent failure, ridicule is heaped upon him. Then a novel Ade twist to the eternal story is introduced, with interesting results. PULSATING DRAMA OF THE DESERT. A desert story which treats the native Arabs as human beings, and which is tremendously appealing and dramatic, is “Burning Sands,” a George H. Melford production of Arthur Weigall’s successful novel. This Paramount picture has as its central character Daniel Lane, a student and philosopher who lives among the Arabs and who, by his Insight and sympathy, learns to know them as the ordinary man never does, and so finds in them much to admire. The other featured part, that of Muriel, was allotted to Mis,s Hawley. Muriel is the present-day type of pleasureloving, mate-realistic young woman; who refers to herself as “emancipated,” but who is really a slave to her whims and desires. She is an English girl, the daughter of Lord Blair, His Majesty’s “Chief Commis-, si oner of Egypt and the Soudan. ( Muriel, petted and spoiled. accustomed to admiration and flattery from [ each man, meets Lane, and out of tne , encounter of these contrasting char-. acters grows the drama. Lane does . not flatter, he admires, but in silence, because while he realised Muriel s great charm, he is convinced that it would be a great mistake for him to yield to it.
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Shannon News, 19 August 1924, Page 2
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326MAORILAND PICTURES. Shannon News, 19 August 1924, Page 2
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