DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS.

Shannon News, 18 May 1926, Page 2

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS.

AS "DON' Q, SON OF ZORRO." Douglas Fairbanks lias never before produced a picture which offered him the latitude and scopo of expression that, is given in bis -new United Artists Corporaiion vehicle, "Don Q, Son of Zorro," set down h>r showing at Shannon on Friday. To begin with, this feature is replete with all the romentic dash and go of earlier productions. Added to the opportunities ,for excellent aeiing are the hair-raising stunts which have always kept Fairbanks fams in. a flutter between their sea-ts and the ceiling, theoretically speaking. Doug, petforms feats in this picture that will seem incredible. Besides the astounding stunts he performs with a black snake whip, which serves as his chief weapon, lie accomplishes teats of swordsmanship that are remarkable. The ingenuity wilh which he escapes from his enemies will provoke both mirth and admiration. One scene shows him in a fifty-foot slide as lie vaults from a window when cornered by great odds'in a sward fight. For the delectation of his audience lie has dramatised the incident of "the bull in the china shop," only he captures the bull, all with a whip and a cape. "THUNDERING HOOFS." WEDNESDAY AT THE MAORILAND. Tackling a full-sized Spanish bull bare-handed, after the, animal has been maddened into a white-hot fury by the barbs of the picadors and matadors, is no child's play, but Fred Thomson actually does it and comes out victorious in 'Thundering Hoofs," to be shown in Shannon to-morrow. In an unbelievable contest. Thomson pits his courage, strength and agility against the bull, and thereby saves his favourite horse, Silver King, from being gored. Ann May plays i the role of a Spanish senorita, while j Carrie C. Ward, Fred Huntley, Bill Lowry and Charles Mailes are also in i the cast.