MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 31 March 1925, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

THJi ART OF JOHN JBiAIUIYMOI Ui. In “Beau Brumme!” (due at the Muonland ion Wednesday) the greutest ot mil romantic dramas,' JOim Barrymore gives a.viyid portrayal oi the great dandy.. He is seen' as We young Hussar and iaten- as We leader oi w.it and lashxon, and the itioi. of England's most distinguished ladies. in ear the end of tne picture the Beau is in disgrace. His wealth, is a thing ol the past, he lias tQ stint and deprive himseli. It shows in the faintly etched lines, in the gaunt expression, the clothes, and the grey-streak-ed thin hair. 'This is a marvellous transformation hut the greatest surprise of all follows. Beau is on his i last legs, demented and. living out his past splendour in his little rooni in the hospital. Here John Barrymore had to put to work ail his imaginative resources to portray the lunatic, the man who grabs a hunk of bread and rams ft down his throat, where years before he would have been the last word in fastidiousness and style. “THH SEA HAWK” FRIDAY. Consistent wun their policy of giving the lo.cal public the very finest pictures procurable, the management of the MaorHand Theatre on Friday presents Frank Lloyd’s First National Picture, “The Sea uawk,” adapteu from a best seller by Rafael Sabaum, author of “Scaramouche,” and regarded by critics and producers as the greatest sea story ever brought to the silver sheet. Dealing with a spectacular romance and the piracy of. the late sixteenth century, English, Spanish, and Moors, “The Sea Hawk” is reputed tq_possess an extraordinary amount of thrilling incidents, redblooded action and tender romance amid quaint and massive settings, and in the hands of the producer of ‘Ashes of Vengeance,” “Les Miserables,” “Black Oxen’* and “Madam X,” the Sabatini narrative is said to have lost none of its highly entertaining drama, but rather to have been greatly enhanced in its adaptation to the screen. The transfer of Mr Sabatini’s epic to the screen has made necessary the expenditure of £BOO,OOO, the building of a fleet of four mammoth sea craft of the sixteenth century, £20,000 in wardrobe and the use of over a. thousand men in some of file brilliant naval combats; yet critics state “The Sea Hawk” is bigger than just We investment which has made it possible, indeed one of the truly great master-pictures of the film, with thrilling action and big situations to make each succeeding reel, more fascinating than its predecessor. Milton Sills plays the dual character of Sir Oliver Tressilian and Sakr-el-Bahr, ; the hawk of the sea, and Enid Bennett is seen as his fiancee, Rosmund Godolohin. Lloyd Hughes assumes a character part for the first time in his meteoric screen career, playing Lionel, Oliver’s brother, and Wallace

Beery essays the role of Jasper Leigh, renegade, who kidnaps Oliver from ? England and later returns with him ‘ as his faithful lieutenant.