THE MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 19 April 1927, Page 3

THE MAORILAND THEATRE.

"THE WILD BTJI»L's"I«AIB.** '^ Fred Thomson and his wonder hors?, . iij| , Silver King appear in the Master Pic- -,*« , ture release, "The Wild Bull's Lair,", || their most spectacular picture. m ,$2 A raging, maddened, ferocious am* />| mal, half bison, half bull, pawing to -\% attack the helpless old man tied to s • | trco! % His terrified daughter, crazed with "J* fear, trembling in the background. The ;;* fiendish face of Eagle Eye, the half- y f breed, waiting his revenge. •$ Then—a flash of white— a dashing horse, a big, athletic rider hurling him- . . j self off his mount—and just as the bull breaks loose* a heroic cowboy huns >, himself across the head, grabbing the , .death-dealing horns and locking into ,-- the most spectacular battle ever staged ' yfor the screen! '-,: See it at the Maoriland on Wednesday. ■;' "MADEMOISELLE FEOM ABMEH- , TIEBES." "Mademoiselle from Arrrtentiereß' , — magnetic title! One wonders why no- % body thought of it before. After all, no name was more often on the Britis.'i Tommy's tongue, no legendary character has achieved a more considerable notoriety or renown —which you will— } ) in this generation. Other legendary characters have achieved fame in song and fiction; myth or mystery woman, "Mademoiselle" deserves her place. She was an intriguing character and still is. According to the composer 3f the soldiers' song, Tommy Atkins, Esq., ' she was a lady of uncertain age and doubtful virtue; it is precisely on this point that wives and sweethearts — to whom she was always a mystery — ani ex-Tommies —to whom she was a godsend on a forced march —will be most, curious. There was a persistent rumour of course that "Mademoiselle" was a living person who kept an estaminet and ' ■ acted as a spy, but like many other war rumours its origin was wrapt iu mystery. , * As a film heroine, "Mademoiselle" appears as a patriot whose activiticd • might very easily have led to the'scandalous rumours about her character; the author's solution of a delicate problem "is at least ingenious. The film is described as a soldier's story of the war. After all, the war, to'the men in the trenches, was essentially a personal adventure, and it is . appropriate that for the purpose of entertainment with a quality of reminiscence, the film should be a picture of ,\ intimate drama and comedy of the war, told' with' convincing realism, rather . than ah effort to convey the whole panorama of a world upheaval in which truth must inevitably be sacrificed to spectacular effect. "Mademoiselle'.' will make her appearance on Friday at the Maoriland : Theatre. ' ,