MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 7 January 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

‘ ‘ BEHIND THE FRONT. • ’ A COMEDY SENSATION. In the words of Hollywood’s most brilliant comedy critics, “Behind the Front,” to-night’s feature, starts from the first flicker with a chuckle, works into a big, continuous laugh, and ends with a grand “roar.” “Behind the Front” is a Paramount \ comedy of a couple of soldiers in France, I featuring Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton as a pair of soldiers who go to France to “fight like hell,” but end up behind the front, and Mary Brian, a - Red Cross worker, about whom the romance centres. Probably no funnier scenes have ever been filmed than the war sequences of this picture. The story is a true-to-life comedy, rather than a burlesque on the war, and was made technically correct under the constant eye of military officials who saw service overseas, at the front. ‘ ‘ RUSTLING FOR CUPID. ’ ’ Herbert Prior, who has the featured role of Tom Martin, the village Banker, in “Rustling for Cupid,” Fox Films version of Peter B. Kyne’s romance of New Mexico, which is showing at the Maorilaiul on Saturday, is one of Screenland’s older inhabitants. In this latest production of Fox Films west coast studio George O’Brien and Anita Stewart have the leads. Irving Cummings., directed the picture. Prior began his screen career in the old Edison days, when a motion picture camera weighed half a ton and required three strong men to move it. There was no adjustable angle of vision and because Prior\ ; s a tall man he could never get into the close-ups in the old days. THRILLING RAILROAD DRAMA. , “THE TRANSCONTINENTAL LIMITED.” ’ s The urge of the theatre-going public from coast to coast for a rousing, stirring melodrama is answered in “The Transcontinental Limited.” Replete with thrills, man}' of which are new to motion-pictures, it provides that “something different” that the picture patron demands. No melodramatic theme for a motion, picture provides the possibilities of a great railroad story. On the stage and on the screen, the railroau .’vdodrama has an appeal that stamps such a production as a sure-fire hit. No expense has been spared in the making of this production that was found necessary to provide the thrills t-liat are the backbone of such 4 play. The wreck of the plunging flyer will stand out as one of the great cinematic achievements of all time. Never before has so daring, so reckless, so tremendous an effect ever been attempted. _ The expense and the effort are surely justified in the startling result. When Chadwick Pictures Corporation announces an all-star production, you are assured of a case stellar players whose names stand out. Such a name as that ofj Johnny Walker alone is a guarantee of thrills.