MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 14 June 1927, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

“THE DANGER SIGNAL ”

•Most a poor girl suffer beeauso she marries a rich man? This is one of the dramatic problems in the new Master Picture, “The Danger Signal,’ ’ which comes to the Maorilahd Theatre on Wednesday. Jane Novak is the girl who has to suffer for her love. How many parents of wealthy ‘sons realise the uselessness of trying to fight a love that will not recognise money as an aid or a prevention for marriage? And how many, after marriage has taken place, will forgive and try to make the. young couple happy, instead of . putting further stumbling blocks in their path? The popular Miss Novak has an excellent east to support her in developing this situation. " The players include Robert Edeson, Dorothy Revier, Gaston Glass, Pat Harmon, Lincoln Stedxnan and Gertrude Short. The story was directed by Erle<C. Kenton. It has for its background the daring and dangers of those who operate a great railroad system. Douglas Doty wrote the story. There is a railroad wreck which results in the destruction of a huge locomotive, and intimate phases of railway life are said to have been captured by the camera. RUDOLPH VALENTINO

IN THE “SON OF THE SHEIK. ”

Starring in a lavishly produced sequel to the screen story which brought him his greatest fame, Rudolph Valentino comes to the local theatre on Friday, in the picture which metropolitan critics have hailed as his. greatest. It is “The Son of the Sheik,” a fiery, love-mad opus of the desert, with Vilma Hanky, Montague Love, Karl Done, George Fawcett, Bull Montana, Agnes Ayres and other noted players supporting Valentino. Love, life and afiventure are not sugar-eoated in this screen version of the E. M. Hall romance. Valentino does many things ether than make love and ride Arabian steeds in “‘The Son of the Sheik. ” He rescues pretty girls from the baeks of runaway horses, leaps from balconies on to swinging chandeliers, battles desert brigands with sword, pistol and flats —in short, the sheik, or rather, VThe-Son. of the Sheik,” }s mixing, athletics with his amours. ..Portraying the impulsive son or ihe

Shr-ik,” a powerful desert ruler, Rudolph falls in love with a dancer (Vjlma Banky), daughter of a renegade Frenchman. She is the chief attraction of a travelling band of mountebanks, who resent the attentions paid the girl by the rich young sheik and lure the youth to torture one night when he goes to keep a tryst. Finally rescued by his own Henchmen, he believes the dancer has tricked him, and he burns for revenge. The disappointed lover’s first step is to kidnap' the girl. From then on the story unfolds to the sensation*? denouement.