MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 29 October 1926, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

PHANTOM SHIP AWES BIG CROWD The phantom ship, used in Fox Films' production of Coleridge's "The Ancient iMariner,'' which will be screened on j Saturday at the People's Theatre, is so unique in design and weird in appearI ance, that it awed hundreds of pedesitriahs in Hollywood, California, when it made its appearance. ■ Henry Otto, director of the fantasy, Isequence, -was having the gho&t-like ) shell removed from o*.e side of the large | "lot"''to the other and this neeessitaterossing the boul The huge ship, with its charred beams, and flimsy sails, attracted a large crowd, and blocked traffic until the gates of the studio closed and obscured the view. » Clai'a Bow, Earle Williams, Leslie Fenton, and Nigel de Brullier are cast in the feature roles in the modern episode which was made under the direction of Chester Bennett. Paul Panzer 1 appears as the Ancient Mariner in the allegorical narrative. > "THE BEAUTIFUL CHEAT." A story about motion picture life told with chuckles as commas, laughs as semi-colons and shouts of joy as periods has been made into a rollicking comedy drama called "The Beautiful Cneat," a Universal-Jewel starring Laura La Plante, which is coming lo the Maoriland Theatre on Monday. A four-day ocean voyage from Los Angeles to San Francisco and return en a chartered vessel was made by the company for the filming of "en age .scenes. The cast includes Harry Myers, Bertram Grassby, Alexander Carr, Robert Andersen, Helen Dunbar, Tom S. Guise, Kate Price and Walter Perry.