MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 4 March 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

TOM MIX IN "HARD BOILED." Staging a. fierce battle upon the rooi of a rapidly-moving passenger train, Tom Mix, as Jeff Boyden, in "Hard Boiled,'" again demonstrates beyond all question that he is one of the most daring stunt-stars in the moving picture world. This picture will be shown at the Maoriland Theatre on Saturday. In this thrilling drama of the West, adapted from the romantic story by Shannon fife, the modern Buffalo Bill not only rescues a beautiful girl from death- but routs a gang of crooks and proves that he knew something about that most difficult business, the management of a dude ranch. Tony, as usual, plays a most dramatic part, while Helene Chadwick, as the girl in the case, gives the mo'st finished screen performance of her career. . j "THE YELLOW BACK." A new Western film star on the screen, and his first starring production is to be seen at the local theatre on Monday, when "The Yellow Back" is to be shown. The star is Fred Humes, and he has just been elevated to the list of those favorite cinema celebrities whose names are emblazon ed in electric lights on theatre-fronts by the Universal Pictures Corporation, maker of the famous Blue-Streak Westerns.. Humes, in addition to being an excellent actor, bows to no one as a fearless rider, and a performer of all manner of ranch tricka Strangely .'Hough, he is not a product of tho West by birth, although he spent most of .his life on cattle ranches. He Was boni in Pittsburgh, and attended school there. When his education had been completed, .however, he tired of city life, and answered the call of the wanderlust. His wandering trail took him to Texas, where he,worked on cattle ranches, and for several years he roved about the ranges in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico,. Wyoming, Idaho 1 and Montana. It was at this time that he learned to ride, rope, and to do all the othjstunts he knows. His peregrinations then took him to Hollywood at last; where he at first became a member of the famous Universal Ranch Riders, and finally to stardom, at first in two reel Westerns.