MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 2 September 1924, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. Harry Depp, who is playing a pro- [ minent character role in “Nobody’s Money,” a Paramount picture starring . Jack Holt, which, comes to the local I theatre on Wednesday, spent five ■months in a St. Louis hospital. He was confined as a result of a breakdown from too much comedy workfalling off ladders, jumping off bridI ges and hodbnobbing with comedy lions. In the rols of Eddie Maloney, the burglar-secretary in “Nobody’s Money,” Depp has a funny character part. The next roynd of the “Leather Pushers” will also he included in the programme on Wednesday. “FOOL’S PARADISE,” Tlie sureness and ease with which a Cecil B. De M/ille motion picture unfolds itself re-wals always the power of the mind behind it. Every detail subconsciously demanded by the spectator is fulfilled accurately, and one looks back with satisfaction upon an entertainment of exquisite finish. “Fool’s Paradise” offers all this. The tense opening of the story demanded strength, so De Mill© painted his Mexican oil town with powerful, throbbing strokes. Here we have lawlessness, passion and crudeness with an underlying current of pathos that now and theii vividly manifests itself. This 'atmosphere is sharply cut by the I6e Ballet in the last act of “The Show Queen.” The ballet is fantastically beautiful and holds one in a rare spell.

Tile story then swiftly changes to Siam. A glittering array of Oriental scenes weave into a background of incident where one sees huge temples, Sacred Temple Dancers in bizarre costumes, tropical animals, crocodiles in a thrilling sene, quaint birds, royal barges swinging gracefully on the lagoons, Siamese nobles, beggars, street vendors mingling on the water front, hordes of heathen worshippers, bewitching Oriental beauties, huge elephants lumbering along with' gaily coloured howdahs and a thousand other details redolent of the East.