MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 21 June 1927, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

RIDER HAGGARD'S "SHE "

£o well known is this popular story, .by one of our most brilliant romanticists, that a resume of it seems unnecessary, except to illuminate its remark able' possibilities as "a screen drama of elassie proportions. It win be screened'on Wednesday night The selection •Of Miss Betty Blythe for the title-role .ef "SHE," the white and wonderful (Queen, is singularly happy, combining, as she., does, youth and beauty with high histrionic ability. :' The majority of us probably remember well enough how the young Englishman, Leo Vincey/Jfiie lineal descendant, of an ancient Egyption priest, er;.barks with a friend, Horace Holly, and their faithful factotum, Job, in search of the legendary and mysterious Queen,' who,, defying death and time, has ruled for . eountless ages over a barbarian people in the heart of blackest Africa. They-go far up the Zambesi River, past the rock, shaped like an Ethiopian's head, into the city of the catacombs, where dwell the fearsome tribe of the Amahaggar. After blood-curdling ceremonies, they eventually reach the dwelling of the Queen. No sooner has she seen Leo .than she declares that he is. her lost lover, Kallikrates, for whom, through countless ages, she.has waited. * Art ingenuity, imagination, the tensest drama, magnificenlty mounted, all help to make "She" a photoplay worthy of its subject, and fit to take its place among the finest pictures yet produced in England or abioad.

BUgTER KEATON IN "THE GENERAL." •,"Lo6k, who comes here? "Advance, Frozen Face and give the pass word*. ~ "Laughter!" x . Pass. Frozen Face, with your trainload of thrills, hilarious joy, and side- , splitting mirth." Buster Keaton in "The. Generalwill provide the big feature this week at the Maoriland Theatre, and the management notify patrons that they will not be responsible for any casualties that may occur through over-indulgence in the laughter-boom. It begins at the Maoriland on Friday night. -