MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 30 April 1926, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

ZANE CrREY’iS “CODE OF THE WEST.” Dropping several hundred feet- from an inferno- of fire into a river is -one of the hazardous feats accomplished by Owen Moore and Constance Bennett .during the filming of the Zane Grey Paramount production ‘‘Code of the West,” 'to be screened at the Maoriland Theatre on Saturday. “The scene required more nerve than anything I have -ever seen,’ declared director William K. Howard, after it was over. “Yet neither Mr Moore nor Miss Bennett, would agree to use a double. They displayed wli-at 1 believe is one of the greatest hits of courage ever brought out in a motion picture, .and I admire them for it tremendously.” In the photoplay both Moo-re and Miss Bennett are -hemmed in on all sides by- a terrific forest fire,, and their only hope of escape is to jump into- the river, far -below They make the leap and land in the stream, where they are immediately rescued ,by a party waiting on the hank.

NEW DEVICE MEASURES LAUGHS.

“WHERE WAS I?” Tiie degree of humour iof a. comedydrama ' can be accurately measured by a laugh registering device. Such a device was used by William Setter, director, for registering the laughs obtained by Reginald Denny jin his latest picture “Where Was 1?” which will be screened at the Maoriland Theaitre on Monday. By means of this machine it was discovered 'that .while most people said “Where Was I?” were equally funny as “I’ll Show You the Town” it was in reality .slightly funnier. The machine used was a registering device which totalled numbers each time a lever on it was .pushed. Seiter sat in the audience the night the picture was previewed at a i.os Angeles theatre, dutifully pushing the lever every time a general laugh swept the audience. He registered 284 laughs .in -“Where Was I?” while “I’ll Show You the Town’ 5 registered 277. Snickers, chuckles and individual laughs were barred from the count, while smiles didn’t even gain recognition ainid the laughs ami ed shouts of the joy-ridden audience. ' T i ie story with its funny situations starts in a directors’ meeting, progresses to a subway train and thence to a taxi in the open road, where many adventures befall the .party of three consisting of Denny. Chester Conkiin and Lee Moran. The story ends after a general mixup at Henny’s apartment in which two gnls. police and irate directors take part.