MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 24 March 1925, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

"WOMEN MEN MARRY." .Is U triie that to-day, as in the ages past, a, woman's love and soul is bought for tinkling gold, her caresses sold across the Bargain counter to the highest bidder? is false education making women forget that the highest duty to God is to be mothers of the future and wives of men? These are pregnant questions that are answered in the star picture at Wednesday's screening locally. BLOWING UP THE BIG DAM. In "The Sagebrusher," the photon play of the famous Emerson Hdugh "best-seller,'* Benjamin B. Hampton, the new genius Qf motion picture production, has added another to his long list of technical 'triumphs. One incident in the powerful Selznick release, shows a mighty dam across a mountain canyon blow up. flooding the canyon and washing away a whole settlement below iij. Tl'is was a straight feat of engineering and motion picture generalship. A forest fire is another thrilling element of the story. While the fire, that raged in the Sierra Madres duping the month of September, one of the most destructive conflagrations ever recorded in the range, was used in most of the forest fire scenes of the play an artificial forest had to be built lor one scene that in the picture last -but a few seconds—a mere flash. At the local theatre on Friday.