MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 22 March 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

A WORLD BEATING PICTURE. "THE BIG PARADE." Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's remarkable picture production, "The Big Parade," which has been the subject of much discussion in England, Australia and America, began its New Zealand tour at the De Luxe Theatre, Wellington, on January 21st. and comes to Shannon on Thursday and Friday next. The records established by this celebrated film are remarkable. It has just complete! fourteen months in New York, and is lunning as strong as ever. During the first fifty-two weeks the total receipts, which have been audited and certified, reached over one million dollars. These enormous figures have never been approached by any other picture in onv theatre,. In England "The Big Parade" showed at the Tivoli Theatre, London, for over seven months, a reeord for the British Isles. No less than ten road shows, carrying full oichestra and effects men, are touring prints of "The Big Parade" throughout America. Canada and England. A private screening of the picture was recently given by coui tesy of the Government, Publicity Department in its theatre, where the film was screened in the presence of Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament and representatives fiom the Eoturned Soldiers' Association and otn«: leading citizens, who praised the pielure very highly. The Avar scenes ar-3 views of rare realism and extreme beauty, while the love story is described as "one of the sweetest and truest ever recorded by screen or pen." A very rich vein of humour is largely ievidence in many sections of the pielure, which lightens, in admirable fashion, the intensely'dramatic and realistic incidents featured in the battle scenes in'' No-man's Land.'' Characterisation by John Gilbert, Karl Dane, and Tom O'Brien are regarded as "three of the finest character delineations ever seen together in one picture." Renee Adoree presents a portrait of Melisande, a French girl who can "Spik no Inglis," with a masterly skill, whic-i has won for her a position amongst the first flight of actresses for the screen. WEDNESDAY. "THE ADVENTUROUS SEX " Clara Bow. Herbert Rawlinson/ and Eaile Williams are -the featured players in the new Master Picture. "The Adventurous Sex," whieh will be the attraction at the Maoriland Theatre to-morrow evening, but the cast includes other well-known names as well, cmong the most prominent being .Harry T. Morey and Flora Finch,. "The Adventurous Sex" is an ultra modern story of the young generation, and Miss Bow, perhaps the screen'.3 best-known flapper, has the part of an adventurous yexmg thing, who, tiring of parental Interference and a constant stream of "don't," takes life into her own hands and starts out to blaze a trail. Her striving for freedom brings about a very embarassing situation and puts her in a bad light with the ma, she really loves, but who, for the present at least, seemed entirely too straigh-t laced to suit her. The gay life of the young folks is said to be pictured with fidelity. The climax of the story comes with a sensational rescue from an airplane when the disillusioned girl plunges-into the Niagara River and is being swept on toward the great falls.