THE MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 22 April 1927, Page 3

THE MAORILAND THEATRE.

"A TRIP TO CHINATOWN,;" Never in the history of the cinema has a funnier comedy been produced than "A Trip to Chinatown," Fox Films version of Charles A. Hoyt's stage farje, -which opens at Shannon on Saturday. The cast, which is one of the best ever assembled on the West Coast, is headed by Margaret Livingston, Earle Foxe and J. Farrell MacDonald. Such famous Oriental stars as Anna May Wong and George Kuwa are seen in strong supporting roles. Miss Livingstoil who wears thirty-six different gowns specially designed for this production, make 3 one of the most striking figures ever projected on the screen. Earle Foxe, called the screen's greatest masculine funster, appears as the tired young man with the explosive lung. His is sure he is going to die—and yet he has never been more anxious to live. Miss Livingston, as the audacious widow, is the reason! ,In the course of the story, which opens on a train headed West, the entire company takes a never-to:be-for-gotten trip through San Francisco'.* lomantic Chinatown. This is reproduced with the utmost fidelity and the night scenes are marvelous. For the interiors, Fox Films built some of the, most magnificent setd ever constructed „on the West Coast. ' ?« THE MYSTERY CLUB .'' A real thriller is promised for Monday at the Maoriland. "The Mystery Club" is an organization of millionaires of whom the youngest member is Dick Bernard. They wager that crimes can be committed without detection by the police, the arbiter of the wager being -Inspector Burke. An.agreement is drawfi up, to which each member hffixes his" signature, which calls for the forfeiture of 25,000 dollars should any crime go awry. None of the rnjembers know which one of them' is to be the criminal, Burke being sole possessor of the details. The next night newspapers appear with the news that Burke has been murdered., Alarmed, the "members agree to cancel.the agreement, but upon opening the safe they find the agreement missing. . The jewels of a Mrs Vanderveer are stolen and the blame placed upon the Mystery Club. Fearing notoriety, the members make up the amount of the value .of the jewels and present the check to the owner. Dick has fallen in love with an aristocratic, young woman, Nancy Darrell. He discovers that she is connected with the robbery. Sick at heart, he returns to his apartment and is informed that the Fairchild baby is kidnapped. " He Nancy in his rooms and reproaches her. ,By a she escapes. After she has, left he finds the baby in his bedroom. The ransom has already been paid by the club and Diek must return the baby to its parents. He is seen and suspected by the club members as the archcriminal. Crime, after crime is committed as the baffled members become almost frantic in the effort to avoid notoriety. Finally a master-stroke is do- , livcred by the unknown enemy, after which the members of the club are .arrested. A sudden bewildering climax upsets everyone's calculations as , ths master criminal., stands revealed in a situation that is unparalleled in its intensity and the picture closes amid scenes of-hilarity and general relief.