MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 29 March 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“SATAN IN SABLES” MAN’S LOVE FOE HIS BROTHER. Docs friendship between man and man surpass in finesse, spirituality and permanence love between man and woman? This is one of the questions of enduring interest to humanity that is raised in 6t Satan in Sables* * the Warner Bros, classic of the screen, coming on Wednesday to the Maoriland Theatre and starring Lowell Sherman. In ancient Greece where the intellect 1 held sway and was greatly gloried in, philosophers looked upon love between man and woman much as we are apt to to-day—as the prime motivating force of the world. However, they considered it something purely physical, something inevitable and natural, the decree of nature and nothing particularly redounding to the credit of either person . Loves or friendships between men were many, based upon similarity of tastes, interests and intellects, and were held to be purely of the mind and spirit. Several friendships of this type which could have been called perfect love by these ancient philosophers, such as that of Damon and Pythias, have existed in history. In “Satan in Sables,” this is the kind of love that exists between the brothers, Michael, played by Sherman, and Paul, as portrayed by John Harron Paul, the younger, is the one serious interest and love of Michael’s prodigal life until Pauline Garon, as Colette, the gamine sunbeam of the Paris dance halls, comes into it. The theme of this Bradley King story, directed by James Flood, is the effect of these two loves in regenerating Michael’s wasted life. MARY PICKFORD IN “SPARROWS” See Mary' Piekford in her most dramatic child study “ Sparrows ” at [he Maoriland Theatre on Friday night. ADORE the “world’s sweetheart” in her antics and moods of elfin mischief . SMILE when the little rebel of the baby farm “puts it over’’ on the harsh TnflflfPT ROAR as “Spec” O’Donnell stops a blueberry nie with his freckled face. APPROVE the screen’s most winning baby that Maiy Pickfltord almost adopted. . . PITY the wan tots penned m a •;emi-tropical wilderness stockade far from help. SHUDDER when a fieree mastiff .rails ten truants through the quaking bogland. GASP at the alligators infesting the '.agooiis and snapping at the runaway ,‘hildren. THRILL at the race of the police pa-crol-boat and the runaway speedboat aden with fugitive orphans. CHEER when “Mama Mollie’’ wins .he unforgettable flight through the ,wamp —a sublime “Children’s Pilgrim’s Progress.”