MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 15 February 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

PRED THOMSON AND SILVER I KING. i Corking comedy, stirring rescues and ! escapes; the individual brilliance of 1 Fred Thomson and Silver King, and the fascination of swift-moving, laughterprovoking drama make "The Tough i Guy" one of the best evening's enter- .' tainments seen locally in many a lusI trous moon. The most recent of the F. 8.0. productions, featuring the famous western hero and his horse will be screened on Wednesday night in Shannon. Lola Todd, Robert McKim and Billy Butts, in addition to the wonderful Silver, are the featured players supporting the star. The picture is a photo-dramatisation of the story by Frank M. Clifton, and it has been bril- | liantly directed by Dave Kirkland. The rescue of the youngster from the railroad tunnel, as Fred accomplishes it, is one of the most thrilling ever screened. "THE TOWER OF LIES." The charming Norma Shearer, who is co-starred with Lon Chaney in "The Tower of Lies," and coming to the Shannon Theatre on Friday, is again seen in a role which calls for a wide range of acting on account of the great number of years through which the story runs. In the early part of the picture she appears as a child, then a young woman, and finally as a woman of thirty who has become ' hardened from contact wiyi the world. There is no escaping the grip of this mighty drama, as real as the story of humanity itself. The passionate love of a boy, the sacrificing love of a father—for a girl who found the ways of the world too much for her. She had made the one fatal mistake for a woman, and all the world j had turned against her. Only her father, and the boy who .loved her kept their blind faith in her. . Here is the •strong fabric of real drama, made by Seastrom into a picture with a mighty human niesage. Norma Shearer as the wayward girl who finds happiness at last, and Lon Chaney, as the father, here reach the triumph of their screen careers.