MAORILAND THEATRE

Shannon News, 26 November 1926, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE

"LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT." IS BLAMED FOR THIS MISHAP. Buck Jones, star in -Fox Films production of "The Fighting Buckaroo," which will show at the Maoriland Theatre on Saturday, responded to love at first sight with such alacrity that he broke six chairs when the scene was made. Sally Long is the girl who so stirred the Buckaroo.- Now she has been honoured by the Western Motion Picture Publicists Association, and chosen as a Wampas star for 1926. The scene in question is in a dining room of a fashionable hotel. The Buckaroo catches sight of the girl. A friend who is«dining with him recognises her as an old acquaintance. The Buckaroo, in his mad rush to drag his friend along so he can be introduced, pushes back his chair. The chair was smashed in the first attempt to make the scene and in five subsequent efforts until more substantial ones were provided. Neill says the realism which Jones put into the scene more than paid for the wrecked chairs. However, he' refuses to credit Jones' alacrity in responding to love at first sight to the actor's ability alone. He thinks Miss Long had something to do with it.

"COMBAT."

SOME THRILLING FIGHTS. Rugged pitched .battles are one of the features of "Combat" a Universal Jewel which will be screened at the Maoriland Theatre oh Monday, with House Peters in the starring role. Among other virile action there are two thrilling fights which alone stand out as sufficiently thrilling, to be the climax of the story. But neither, of them is the high point of the story. This big moment comes in as thrilling a, forest fire as ever was screened. The first of the fights is a-gang affair, a free-for-all in which a crowd r of lumberjacks mix up with a gang o,f lumber poacher's who have been stealing trees. v A clever touch in this fight is that it takes place in front of "The Lumberjacks' Rest." Later House Peters mixes up with the head of the poachers and they fight a fierce battle in a driving rain on the edge of a dangerous cliff.