MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 1 June 1926, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

• —♦ . WILLIAM S. HART ON FRIDAY. “Tumbleweeds,” to be screened on Friday, presents a graphic and dynamic camera story of the greatest land rush in the history of the West —when the United States Government threw open to homestead the 12,000 square mtiles of virgin prairie' ■in the Cherokee Indian strip between Kansas and Oklahoma. ' Thousands joined in this madly wild stampede for home sites, and the “rush” is pictured by William S. Hart with absolute fidelity and historical accuracy.

“History told tin heart,throbs,” was the comment of a noted motion picture critic when he saw this new William S. 'Hart picture while it was being edited and titled. The picture gets its name from a weed that sprouted apparently from nowhere immediately after the prairie sod of the middle western states was turned over by the settler’s plow. This weed grew rapidly 'into'a great hemisphere of spiny foliage, its flat side on the ground, and its huge oval, sometimes four feet tall; resting in a broad circle on the earth. Nature caused the root to decay as the millions of seeds ripened, and at the first strong wind of autumn the weeds fetched loose from their moorings and went rolling and tumbling across the prairie like a great ball.

WEDNESDAY'S PROGRAMME. On Wednesday Charlie Chaplin will be included in the bill in one of hiis latest comedies entitled “1 a.m.” It is said to be a screaming farce. ' “CHEAP KISSES” WEDNESDAY. “Blarney Castle,” the seaside home of a California millionaire at- Long Beach, Calif., one of the prettiest country homes in America, was chosen for a number of pretty outdoor scenes in “Cheap Kisses,” the C. Gardner Sullivan production which come to the Maoriland Theatre tomorrow. Here the entire company and technical staff spent several glorious days during the filming of the picture. Hay and night scenes were “shot" amid the bathing pools, gardens and lawns of “Blarney Castle.” An all-star cast, headed by Cullen Landis, Lillian Rich and Vera Reynolds, appears in “Cheap- Kisses.”