“THE LUCKY DEVIL.”

Shannon News, 3 September 1926, Page 2

“THE LUCKY DEVIL.”

A SPEED DRAMA. Take a good looking fellow with a beautiful speed car and no money to run it with. Then add a beautiful girl and her mother in a Ford that refuses to run. Sprinkle gingerly with speed, thrills, and laughs, and you have a fair idea of. Richard Dix’s new Paramount picture, “The Lucky Devil,” due on Saturday at. the Maoriland Theatre. Esther Ralston plays opposite he star in this -original screen story by Byron Morga'n, directed by Frank Tuttle, who made ‘‘Too Many Kisses" and “Miss Bluebeard.’’ It is a tale of a young fellow who spent- the earlier part of liis life dreaming of what he would do if he ever got a good car, and then when luck came his way—what he did. All the scraps he got into, the money he was fleeced out of, how lie was arrested once and almost a second time, how lie fell in love with a beautiful girl and followed her for miles and miles, how lie entered his car in a big auto race and won it, the money and the girl, will give you more thrills to the minute than you’ve ever experienced In your life. “HIS PEOPLE,” MONDAY’S FEATURE DRAMA. “His People’s” the- Universal-Jewel production in which f ßudolph .Schildkraut, famous European stage star, makes his American debut in pictures will be shown at the MaorilaiuL Theatre on Monday. It is a powerful story of the life of a plain Cihetto family—the pariarchay father, the patient, submissive mother and the ‘ two sons, one an ambitious student and the ’other a prigefighter, How the family finally achieved happiness after a mishaps is graphically and humorously depicted under the" capable direction of Edward Sloman. Supporting Mr Schildkraut are Rosa Rosanova, George Lewis, Arthur Lubin, Kate Price and Blanche Mehaffey.