MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 24 December 1926, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

“THE DANCERS”—SATURDAY, j PROBLEM OF A DANCE-MAD AGE. “The Dancers” which comes to the Maoriland Theatre on Saturday, screen version of the sensatioiial stage success, the latest William Fox production, offers additional impetus to the moot question. The character of Una, a dance mad creature who suffers a tragic eni which strengthens the claims of those opposed to the dance mania, while the depth of character revealed in the cause ‘ leading to it are scored points for the enthusiast. It is this seeming contradiction of character in both leading roles, that of Una, portrayed by Madge Bellamy, and Maxine, as interpreted by Alma Rubens, that helps make this picture an event of magnitude in the pictorial world. George O’Brien plays the leading male role. ! “The Dancers” was directed by Emmett Flynn from a scenario written by Edmund Goulding from the stage play by Gerald DuMaurier and Viola Tree. • ‘WATCH YOUR WIFE ’ ’—MONDAY. ' “ Watch Your Wife” is an unusual story of married life. In it husband and wife, the characters'played by O'Malley and Miss Valli, after many pretty quarrels have agreed to disagree. A divorce follows, the husband, an author, remains at home with his work. The wife retires to a hotel and there meets a foreign fortune hunter. The husband finds home is nothing without a wife and rents one from a social service bureau, hiring her from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. with love-making barred. On the situations thus created is based the plot and comedy of the photoplay. “WOLVES OF THE BORDER” — TUESDAY. “Wolves of the Border,’” screening on Tuesday, is a thrilling story of. an outlaw band of cattle rustlers and thieves which operated among the isolated ranches in the Western Hills. “The Wolf” was their mysterious leader andi although he talked openly in the small town streets and spoke with sheriffs and citizens alike, he had. never been branded as the leader of the gang. Dick Donaldson, owner) of the El Fanita Rancho was never molested, as his cowboys were superior men to those of the Wolf. Dick’s aunt brings Mary Wagner to El Fanita for a short holiday visit and Dick enlists the aid of Sheriff Baxter to help him clear the district’ of the Wolf and his gang to. make tho visit a safe one. By a ruse the Wolf sends Dick and his boys to the assist- * ance of a nearby ranch owner and during their absence he attacks El Fanita with the intention of capturing Mary, but is surprised by the arrival of th. Sheriff and his men and the return of Dick. A ! thrilling fight and the capture of the Wolf is one of the outstanding incidents of the picture.