MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 8 September 1925, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

A NEW CORINNE. Corinne Griffith, for all the luxuriance ol' society .backgrounds to which her film roles have accustomed her, is not the least reluctant mussing her hair or wearing plain, homespun dresses and dirtying her face. She proves this as the wife of an adventurer in tile Canadian sequence of her latest First National drama, “Cove's Wilderness,’’ to be shown ai the Maoriland Theatr e on Wednesday. Her appearance in these scenes is in striking contrast with the beautiful Corinne, stunningly garbed, in oilier. sequences of the film. ‘THE, SHOOTING OF DAN Me GREW.’ This famous poem is even more powerful as a screen play than in verse. It. will he shown hi Shannon on Friday. The story is as follows:. Alter two years of varying success in touring 'the South Sea islands, a musical comedy troupe of which Lou Lorraine is the leading dancer, tries to recover its lost fortunes by giving a season of American jazz in the hulk of a stranded vessel. Jim, Lou’s husband, is the pianist of the company. Lou becomes a big favourite, hut the squalor of the place nauseates her and she tells Jim that they must leave for the sake of their boy. Jim’s quiet nature is mistaken for indifference, although he* loves both big wile and child devotedly. One night at flic resort she meets a slick gambler Dan McGrew, who tells her that she could make a -fortune if she would do her i act in New; York under his manage- i ment. Her husband suspects Me- , Grew’s designs and forbids her to go. But she is made desperate hy the hardships that she and her child ha.vo to endure and decides to go with McGrew. She is forced, however, to leave the child behind at the last moment. In New York she is an instant success capturing the town as dancer in a fashionable cabaret. She sends money to .Tim and the boy but the cable is not sent by McGrew. In answer to a further cabTe it is found that Jim has left, but McGrew again intercepts the reply and substitutes one of his own. His idea in forging the cable is to make the wav clear for Jake Hnbbel to pay his attentions to Lou, but one night at the cabaret. Jim appears, and in the fight- a lamp is Overturned and the fire rapidly spreads. Lou is rescued by Hubbel and Jim, is rescued by the firemen. Lou consents after this, thinking that Jim is out to get Dan and herself, to go to the Yukon. On their trip over the snows McGrow, fearing he won’t get bis promised reward from Hu.bbel, .kills and robs him. He then establishes himself in a Malamute saloon where he becomes known as Dangerous Dan McGrew, an invincibly cool gambler and gunman. Lou has drifted with him. Jim, meanwhile. has recovered in hospital, and visited by Flo, jilted by Dan McGrew, tells Jim of the forged cable and of McGrow’s duplicity. One night a stranger wanders into the Malamute saloon, covers everyone with his gun and says: “One of von is a hound of hell, and that one is Dan ’McGrew.” Then I ducked mv head, and the lights went out, and two guns blazed in the dark, And a woman screamed, and the lights wentup, and two men lay stiff and stark; Pitched on his head and pumped full . of lead lay Dangerous Dan McGrew, ’ While the man from Ihe creeks lay clutched to the breast, of the lady that’s known as Lou. Lou and Jim are united and the miners are glad that Dangerous Dan McGrew 1 is dead.