MAORILAND PICTURES

Shannon News, 23 September 1924, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES

"MAKING A MAN." Forlorn accustomed to. .wealth, and not used to the hardships oi poverty, uiousaiius oi. mutes away trout home, moke, hungry, tired ana not a irienu to turn to. luiis is Jack Holt in "MaK« nig a Man," ~at the Maornand Tneatre on Wednesday. Big, virue, drama bristling with dramatic punches. Evu ftovak is the girl. "The Leather Punchers" als.o ngures on the bill. ; "THE DARLING OF NEW YORK."

Desperate diamond smugglers and the police were battling in a apartment, A gas-ht tame lamp was overturned. A fiashl Swiit-nioving red tongues Qf flame spreaxi. Everybody fled. Four-year-old Baby Peggy, possessor of a doll with a half million dollars' worth of smuggled jewels in its lining, cowered in a neighbouring room. ' A woman was seized in the scuffle and dragged iiito a police wagon. She alofte knew that ■the baby was in the burning building. She screamed, and fought, but the police would not let her go. "Stand back!" a fire chief shouted; "the wall will falll" A mother's strength surged .through Ujght-Fin-gered Kitty's breast. She broke from her captors' grasp. Into the flames she dashed. Then the wall tottered. .... But see Baby Peggy in "The Darling of. New York" on- Friday .night.