"THE MAN ON THE BOX.”

Shannon News, 2 July 1926, Page 3

"THE MAN ON THE BOX.”

$ WILL GET EVERY LAUGH YOU’VE GOT. The soreon’s funniest actress appears when Syd. Ghapiin puts on female disguise. You saw him dO' it in "Charley’s Aunt," and you’ll never forget it. And now, when he does it in "The Man on the Box’’—! to he screened at the Maoriland Theatre to-night. “The Man on the Box" as a novel was one of the gayest, deftest, smartest stories of a genera-, tion. Turned into a play with Henry Dixey in the title role' it delighted everybody, and still affords an outstanding memory of charming merriment to -theatre-goers. And now, as a photoplay, with Syd. Chaplin as the gentleman idler who gets disguised as a cabman and as a housemaid in the fast, Curious complications of a rib-tickling farce, it becomes one of the funniest pictures of ; any season.

MAORILAND THEATRE.

COSGRAVE FEATURED IN “WELCOME HOME” CAST.

Luke Cosgrave, the grand old man of the. stage and the young old man of the screen, prides himself on being handy aroTmd the house. It almost broke the heart of the white-haired veteran when the script of “Welcome Home” called tor him to attempt to repair a table lamp, make a frizzle of the mob and thereby cause a near feud between his screen son and 4au- , ghteT-in-law, Warner Baxter and Lois Wilson. “But I can really fix it,” Luke told Janies Graze, who directed the production for Paramount. And as soon as the scene was over Luke proceeded to properly repair the broken lamp. In addition to Miss Wilson, Baxter and Cosgrave as featured players, the cast includes Margaret Morris, Josephine Crowell, Adele Watson and Bern Hendricks. “Welcome Home” comes to the Maoriland Theatre on Saturday. "BEFORE MIDNIGHT.” Just as mystery, stories have always held a high -place fin Action, they take pre-eminence, on the screen. As a striking example of The strength which concentrates in such a tale, “Before Midnight,” the latest William Russell picture, is said to stand out notably. This Royal Picture comes to 1 the local Theatre on Monday. The narrative deals with the invincilble U.S. Secret aL though the audience is unaware of this fact at first. So cleverly .is the plot presented tlia.t Russell appears more as a super-smuggler who in some wav is connected with the theft of a priceless gem from Rome.