MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 1 July 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

“MARRIAGE LICENSE.” ', Alma Rubens is featured in “Mi age License?” Fox Films version , “The Pelican,” the play by J Harwood, and F. Tennyson Jesse'-w scored such a tremendous success New York and London and. which'; comes to the Shannon Theatre. In this dramatic story of a beaut woman’s sacrificing loVe for her ' Miss Rubens gives one of the moost j markable performances of her can ! In the first sequences she is a yoi 1 bride and in the later one she is a-j j fectly poised woman who has fou j and won against seemingly overwhc ing odds. ' The action takes'place in the axis cratic home of the Heriots in Engh and in the romantic atmosphere o: lovely villa in France. Walter McGrail and Walter Pidn have the principal male roles in tbetg duet ion. ' A CYCLONE OF MIRTH ’ “TAKE IT FROM ME. 1 ’ Another cyclone of laughs, with.B inald Denny as it instigator 'and I fcn ter of ceremonies, will entortain/.i audiences at the Shannon Saturday. Its title is “Take It Jfc Me,. , and its sole purpose is the p motion and furtherance of > laugh It has no serious intent, and is riotg ly funny—funnier .even'than Denn previous pictures, “ What Happened Jones” or “Skinner’s Dress Suit.” Fancy Reginald Denny, if you ei as the manager of a department st( in a big city. He doesn’t k&ow-a more about running- one in. the rpictl than he probably does in real life./E he is deadly serious in trying to-do I: job right. . • ' He must show a profit or lose 4 stroe. Of course-the comedy villi comes in here by trying to prove him from, keeping.: the establishing out. of the red side of the ledger. Blanche Mehaffey makes a beau ful and eharming leading woman'4 the clever farceur. \ Ben Hendricks, Jr., and Lee Mor as the blundering but well-intention friends of the hero are a splendid ©6 edy team. Ethel Wales and-Luc Littlefield ore excellent as the pot.tl who try to break the store, ancP'Je Tolley, in a supporting role, is ex© lent proof of why gentlemen pre| blondes. “Take It From Me” has all ’vt oreeziness of the musical eomedy fn whieh it was adapted. It is a Uhivi sal-Jewel production directed by W liam A. Loiter. * i s *