MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 5 July 1927, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

“THE CAVE MAN.” A merry comedy-drama, with a brilliant. cast, perfectly directed describes “The Cave Man,” the Master Picture which conies to Shannon on Wednesday. It is the film version of the wellknown Gilette. Burgess story, has as its stars Matt Moore and Marie .Prevost, and was directed by Lewis Milestone. Miss Prevost plays Myra Gaylord, a beautiful and bored society. girl in search of a thrill. Matt Moore, as Mike Sniagg, a coal heaver, provides the thrill when she begins to train him for a social career. He becomes a social lion in spite of his crude .wavs, which are attributed to his eccentricity, and Myra realizes that she, has fallen in love with him. ' When lie is turned by a .rich young flapper, lie turns back to his old friends who taunt him to .fury. It is then he realizes it is Myra he loves and he eomes back to tell her she has' ruined bis life and to marry her.

“ISN’T LIFE WONDERFUL?”,

GRIFFITH ’8 NEW FILM ASTOUNDS

EVERYONE

Hailed as the picture which has -revolutionized the films by proving, that a vivid life story is as interesting as the old melodramatic plots,. D. W. Griffith’s Isn’t Life Wonderful,’’ will be shown oil. Friday. This is Griffith’s little Cinderella picture which he brought quietly into New t York for the first showing in a-motion picture theatre without the usual fii'st . showing in the legitimate theatre.. Instantly, the critics acclaimed it as one of the great feats- of the cinema, a classic unrivalled and perhaps the most important picture produced in many years. With- no aid from the customary ' plot ’ machinery, the genius of Griffith has' built ’a most moving story, generous in interest, absorbing in suspense and delightful in its gripping studies 'of two/lovers and the family life.

A genuine and 7 powerful work, this picture is one of the most vital ever niade, in that' it.-is the first real test liiade by the motion picture industry to test whether the motion picture public is ready to accept natural drama, rather than the /tried conventions of melodramatic plot.

To brew this new dish for the picture fans, .Griffith took hip company to Germany. The story was originally piiblished . two , years in England by Major Geoffrey Moss, of the British army.’ Players were recruited from half a dozen nations. And the result is one of the outstanding successes of years in the films.