MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 15 July 1927, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

BUCK JONES IN.“THE FLYING

HORSEMAN.” Fast and fvtrious riding and a bunch of eight mischievous'., youngsters feature ‘ 1 The Jflying Horseman,” Fox Films latesFrelease, which will occupy the screen at thp Maoriland Theatre on Saturday. In this story of the west based ou the widely read novel Dark Rosaleen k>y Max Brand, Buck Jones gives some fine exhibitions of fine and fancy riding. i “The Flying Horseman’’ contains an absorbing story which was carried across in great style to the audience who saw the first, performance, yesterday. It. is something to see not only daring feats of horsemanship and stunts of daring that rivet , the attention, but to follow the unfolding of a very human story. Then, too, something novel is seen in the performance of eight young rascals whom Buck adopts in the picture and whp keep him as well as themselves in continuous trouble that proves decidedly amusing-

THE PERCH OF THE DEVILPat O’Malley, Universal’s versatile player, has played four widely varied roles in his last four film parts, and in his latest, “Perch of the Devil,” the Universal picture which comes to the Maoriland Theatre on Monday next, be is seen as an American once more, this time as a mining engineer. He has been a Russian grand duke, a Swedish novelist and an English coster in his last three roles. O’Malley plays opposite'Mae Busch in “Perch of the Devil,” with a supporting cast which ineludes Jane Winton, Theodore Yon Eltz, Mario Carillo, Lincoln. Steadman and others.

In addition a thrilling serial “The Scarlet Streak” will be commenced. The story is built around the famous “death ray” machine. The suspense starts when the editor df a big city daily gets a tip-off that such a machine has been perfected and that the unknown inventor is somewhere in the city. He assigns his star reporter (played by Jack Daugherty) to the task: of running down the great news scoop. The reporter falls into the maelstrom of intrigue and . treachery that surrounds the terrible, device, and the developments- are interesting and excitiiig in the ■extreme.