MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 18 March 1927, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

“EASTi LYNNE” ON SATURDAY. For sixty-four years “East Lynne”' has been regarded as the greatest play ever written. Its drama, its heart interest and its pathos have swayed audiences to tears' in every country on th<> globe and in every tongue. Your mothers and your grandmothers have seen it time~and again and have been held in its spell. It is without peer in the world of melodrama. There is hardly a soul Avho has not seen it and been thrilled. William Fox’s film version is a worthy successor to the finest stage productions of this famous melodrama(. Speaking of this picture a leading producer eays: “There are more-genuinely tense situations in Mrs. Wood’s plan than theer are in the majority of the present day dramas. There is a greater wealth of dramatic material —a more logical arrangement of sequences than you will find in most of. the modern dramas. And, combined with .this, there is a picturesque background of the celebrated old play that Is hard to equal at the present time. The film Aversion of the play, as produced by William Fox, is laid in the 1830 period- —a most fascinating and picturesque era offering a background for a gorgeous and effective film. The cast boasts some of the biggest names in the picture realm Alma Rubens anji-'"' Edmund LoAve, each.an established star, portray the roles of Lady Isabel- and Archibald Carlyle, and Lou Tellegen plaving his first genuine “Yeavy” role, is cast, as the villainous Sir Francis Levison Majorie Daw, Belle Bennett, Frank Keenan, Paul Panzer, Leslie Fenton, Martha Mattox and Richard Headrick Avill be seen in other parts. “East Lynne”-will be screened in Shannon on Saturday night. “THE VAN IN THE SADDLE.” On Monday, Hoot Gibson is the star to appear in “The Man in the Saddle*.” ,On a big ranch that is engaged chiefly in entertaining tourists who want to see the great west, a number of fake holdups are staged to give the city foks a thrill. Lavvrence, the rascally guide, puts on a series of real hold-ups. To save his patronage, the ranch owner reimburses the campers for their money losses and continues to let them, believe that the bandits were, merely entertaining them. Jeff Morgan, who is engaged to run down the bandits on the strength of his father’s tAvo-gun imputation, gets too ambitious and al- - the sheriff by mistake. He is the laughing stock of the ranch and n considered a clumsy and brainless lout, but on the plea of his daughter the ranch oAvner sends Jeff at the head of a camping party in place of' Lawrence. The- latter, in league Avith a city vamp Avho Sends up a signal-rocket when all the camp is asleep, directs his gang of thugs to raid the camp. How they frisk the campers of their valuables in the dead of night and hoAV Jeff, single handed, sets out to retrieve the loo*, and bring the whole gang to justice is a thrilling chapter full of surprises.