MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 25 February 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

"THE PLTJNDEBER." • What would you do if your best friend proved to the girl you loved that her father, whom she holds dearer than any being alive, was a thief? This intensely dramatic situation is one of the highlights in the William Pox special, "The Plunderer," which will be shown at the Maoriland theatre tomorrow. Frank Mayo, the lead, is the mine superintendent, and closest friend to Eddie Phillips, the youthful owner, who proves conclusively to Peggy Shaw, Eddie's sweetheart, that her father has been plundering Eddie's mine and appropriating his gold. Eddie has asked Frank not to reveal this truth to Peggy. Frank, however, deemß it best to do so. He takes Peggy down into the mine. "I told you not to brings her down here," Eddie grates, glaring at Frank, and he hits him on the point of the chin. Frank takes the blow from the boy whom he considers his best friend. A hurt look creeps into his eyes. Eddie is ready to strike again, but at this look and Frank's refusal to fight back, he realises the immensity of his wrong to his friend. "Frank, realising this, doesn't even wait for the boy to apologise. He offers | his hand. With a firm grasp that speaks 'louder than words, the boy seizes it. The incident is closed. "RUSTLERS' RANCH" and "THE RADIO KING." Horse tricks, dog tricks, riding tricks . and fighting tricks are all shown in the breezy five-reel Western outdoor photoplay, "Rustlers' Ranch," which features Art Acord, assisted by 'Raven," the marvellous horse, and "Rex" the intelligent dog. This exciting feature is due on Monday. It is the story of a reckless cowboy who fought for a girl he hardly knew, and then tried to make her marry another man. When there was riding to be done he did it, but when there was love-making she had to do it. He rode a famous horse into a church to force a faker make good, but he, himself, won the girl, a ranch and a fortune. The weird adventures into which a strange radio message hurled Bradley Lane are shown in startling sequences in "The Radio King," the scientific chapter thriller which will begin on Monday. It is a serial filled with the latest wonders of radio telephony and showing the startling uses of strange radio inventions, Avhich even now are just beginning to be developed.