THE MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 17 August 1926, Page 3

THE MAORILAND PICTURES.

“THE PAGE THAT THRILLS.” An exciting automobile race, with a bull fight, a prize fight or two and a goodly share of laughs thrown in for good measure are the chief coiuiponents of “The Pace that Thrills,” a pulse-quickening and laugh-evoking First National picture which will be shown at the Maoriland Theatre oh Wednesday. True to its title, the picture is declared to maintain a 'pace that thrills from start to finish. Playing in the leading roles are Ben Lyon and Mary Astor, while a supporting cast includes well-known film names. THE CHURCH AND THE SCREEN. EMINENT DIVINE ASSISTS PRODUCTION. In making the William Fox screen version of Channing Pollocks stage success “The Fool,” which comes to the Maoriland Theatre on Friday, Harry Millarde, the director, had the assistance of one of New York’s most prominent clergyman, tire Rev. Nathan A. Seagle, D.D., pastor of the fashionable St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church there. The advice and suggestions of Dr. Seagle were very valuable in building the monster cathedral interior where some of the most dramatic scenes in “The Fool” were filmed. This church “set" is perhaps the largest interior ever erected in a New York studio. Dr. Seagle aided in directing Edmund Lowe- as the young minister who delivers a scathing sermon from the pulpit, and also overseeing other parts of the church ritual which are observed in these scenes.

In commenting on tiis experiences in the Fox studio, the clergyman said: “It is such’ plays as “The Fobl” arid such instances of co-operation between the church and the screen as this, that will serve eventually to bring about a perfect amity and understanding between the motion pictures and the church. •