THE MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 12 April 1927, Page 3

THE MAORILAND THEATRE.

"THE JUNGLE WOMAN." When Captain Frank Hurley learned after two years' experience releasing his famous "Pearls and Savages' in America and Europe, that the only way of a scenic to reach the masses was to introduce a regular story and a romance lie pave the world "Pearls of # tlu South Seas." His latest masterpiece "The Jungle Woman," to be screened ■jn Wednesday, promises to reduce any audience to thrilled applause. Dealing with the varied adventures of two intrepid Englishmen in Dutch New Guinea, the story unfolds in a series ol wild, exciting moments, at the same *ime impressing with the atmospheric magnificence of the Papuan back grounds, awing in their sinister sumhreness. The star is Grace Savieri, the indomitable Sydney girl, whose dauntJess courage brought her through a variety of hardships not in the daily routine of any average Sydney girl She returned to this port stricken with malaria, but still smiling. It was an adventure that compensated for even that disease. '' "THE LIMITED MAIL." THRILL FOLLOWS THEILL. Anyone in search of a thrill should see "The Limited Mail." the Master Picture which will be shown on Thursday and which gives enough ihnlls to satisfy and some to spare! Elmer Vance's old-time melodrama, with its .•omantic story of the engineer who was the disowned son of a millionaire, gams tremendously in effectiveness on t'e screen. The excitement of the mountain landslides and train wrecks made the audience gasp with excitement - Then the mcture was screened with the majestic beauty of the Colorado mountains as a background—such a back ground as the stage could never suggest. Monte Blue is featured in the type role which first brought him into notice in the film world—the husky virile hero, in this case a railroad engineer. Vera Beynolds, loaned to Warners by Cecil de Mille for this production, makes an attractive little waitress, with whom Ihe engineer falls in love. GOOD FRIDAY SPECIAL "THE FALL OF BABYLON " For nearly two thousand years Babylon was the centre of the world's civilisation. Her script arfd her- language were known in Egypt and on the shores cf the Mediterranean and were the ur. iversal medium of communication between educated men. She was the bank and emporium of the East; and in the age of her splendor, with her daughter states about her, dominated the thoughts of mankind. What Eome has been and London is, that. Babylon wag —"the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency''' (Isaiah 13:19). Her ruins are still wonderful; but she has left us spiritual ruins, too; and these are yet more strange. The debt of ancient Isra.:l to Babylon was immense. The code ol' Hammurabi (B.C. 2200) may well have influenced the Mosaic ,code. Little wonder if, when the end came, and she fell, a cry went, through the earth that had once feared her power, her pride, her universal empire—" Babylon is fallen, is fallen." The master producer, D. W. Griffith has made a tremendous picture of the Fall of Babylon. It cost more than 650,000 dollars to produce, is presented by a company totalling 125,000 men and Vowen, and has 7500 horses taking part in the great chariot races and pageants attending the'Feast of Belshazzar. The great walls of Babylon, with their giant height of 300 feet and the spacious boulevards built upon their fops; the wonderful halls in the Temple of Belshazzar, halls a mile in length, with giant elephants of alabaster rising up along their sides; the varicoloured lights that play and glow upon Hie fountains of perfume and wine; the dancing girls, the High Priestresses, and all the mightly splendour and luxury of those ancient days —these are but the outstanding features.of Griffith's "The Fall of Babylon," which will be shown in Shannon on Friday by kind permission of his Worship the Mayor.