MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 12 October 1926, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

"LITTLE OLD NEW YORK." Poverty is about to over-take John O'Daly, his invalid son Patrick and his lovable daughter Patricia when a lawyer firoarx America arrives in their Irish village to tell them that a wealthy relative in New York has died, leaving young Patrick sole heir'to a great fortune. On the long journey to America the invalid Pat succumbs to his illness. Rather than give up the promised wealth, John O'Daly disguises his daughter Patrica as a hoy to take the place of the heir. Meanwhile in America, Larry Belevan, stepson of the deceased .O'Daly, is celebrating, believing that since Patrick has failed to appear, the fortune will re- ! vert to him . John O'Daly dies suddenly and "Larry toy his kind treati ment wins the silent affection of the , girl. Larry, anxious to raise some money to 'back Robert Fulton in a steamboat? venture, arranges a fight. in the fire house between Bully I Brewster and the Hoboken , Terror. He places his entire fortune on Bully Boy in hopes of getting the needed money . Pat hears of the scheme and hides on the stairs of the fire house to watch the fight. When she see that the Hoboken Terror is going to win, she rings the fire bell, her loyal soiil .intent on saving Larry's money. The fight immed"iately breaks up, tout the crowd, finding the alarm is false, goes to Larry's house with a rope and demands that he be brought out. Seeing the danger, Pat rushes forth and declares it was she who rang the bell At this, the Hoboken Terror grabs her up on his shoulder and rushes down the street to the whipping post near the Bowling Green. Patricia is lashed to the post. Her jacket has s been ripped off and the heavy blows 'begin to tear the thin silk shirt in which she is clad, When she shrieks in terror:"Stop, stop. I'm a girl." At this moment Larry, followed Jby his friends, arrives on the scene. With a terrific blow he knocks the surprised Tenroi . down, picks Pat up and carries her home. This affair rouses quite a sensation for a time, and at the advice of old John Jacob Astor, Larry's friend and .lawyer Larry and Pat decide to take a trip 'to England until things blow over. They are "married'on the boat and it's all the same to them which ene has the O'Daly fortune, as they will hereafter share all things. The picture will he screened on Wednesday. "THE PONY EXPRESS." COMING FBjEDAY. riday's big picture is "The Pony Eixpress." The time is early in 1860. North and South are equally divided on the slave question. Political eyes are turned to California., as its attitude and resources will strengthen either party.' . . Because of his anti-slavery orati ms Jack Weston, debonair gambler and dead shot, has been marked for death by the "Knights of the. Golden Circle," a secret society, headed by Senator Glen, an unscrupulous politician, who is an avowed Secessionist. Weston, however, makes a sensational escape and goes to .Tulesburg, Colorado, where he becomes a Pony Express rider. Between Weston and Slade, superintendent of the Overland Stage Company, a bitter rivalry springs • up for the hand of Molly Jones, a popular local belle. Slade has arranged with Glen, in the event Lincoln is elected, to send a fake dispatch to California annquneing his defeat, in order to swing Golden State to the Southern cause. Charlie Bent, the half-breed head of a band of Sioux Indians, and secretly in league with Slade, plans to take advantage of the excitement and raid the town.

On the appointed day, new*s of Lincoln's election reaches Julesburg. Weston having learned of Slade's plot, obtains possession of the true dispatch and starts West with it. Meeting the Pony Express rider coming East, Weston persuades him to change runs and take the vital dispatch on West, while he, himself, with the castbouiiu mail, returns to Julesburg. The murderous attack on the town by Bent and his Indians has already begun, but the timely arrival'of a regiment of soldiers saves the day. The last incident of all is the marriage of Weston and Molly. War has been declared. Weston has joined 'the army and the volunteers are marching down the street singing, "We are coming Eather Abraham, three hundred thousand strong."