MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 13 May 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

/‘HONESTY THE BEST POLICY* *

Pauline Starke, masked as a pirate at a fancy dress ball, and Johnnie Walker, in the uniform of a masked Cossack, bungling an attempt to steal a diamond necklace, is one of the big scenes in “Honesty The Best Policy,” Fox Films latest thriller which will reach Shannon on Saturday. KocklifEe Followes, cast as the detective, pursuing the pirate girl about hairpin turns of desert and mountain roads until their cars crash on a narrow hillside road,' is another of the sequences which is full of thrills. Mickey Walker, nine year old vet eran of the screen and stage, who began his theatrical career five years ago. plays Freckles, the" newsie, and pr.> : vides a heart clutch as he and his pup just escape being crushed beneath the wheels of a police car as it rounds a corners in a dash to capture, the; crooks. Grace Darmond adds a sensational episode as she jumps from the roadster lyhich she has in readiness for the girl crook’s escape and' gives her chum ehance to elude the detective.

A touch of comedy is added when the crooks in eluding the police, dash into a’ dental office, bind and gag the dentist and his asistant and then pretend t > work over a patient unconscious from gas. As an amateur dentist Walker is a great success and Pauline Starke a competent partner.

THE UNKNOWN PURPLE A MYSTERY DRAMA. “The Unknown Purple,” which will be 3hown at the Maoriland Theatre on Monday night next is an adaptation 'of the sensationally successful stage play of • the same name by Roland West. After playing a solid year on Broadway, New York, it was seen in the principal cities of the country during two succeeding seasons. The theme is one of mystery, centering about a purple ray of light in which a human being can make himself invisible to the eye. The possessor of this remarkable secret is an inventor, played by H. B. Walthall, whose wife has betrayed his trust in her and whose best friend has stolen all he possessed and sent him to prison on a false charge. Unrecognized by those who betrayed him, the inventor returns after his prison term, and with the aid of the weird power of making himself invisible, which he possesses, proceeds to take a justified vengeance upon them. This story is told in a thrilling, gripping sequence of events, different in type and portrayal than any which the screen has shown. In the cast of the production, which was personally directed by the author, are Henry B. Walthall, Alice Lake, Stuart Holmes, Helen Ferguson, Ethel Grey Terry, Johnny Arthur, James Morrison and little Frankie Lee.