MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 22 July 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

“WOMANPOWER.” Jack Dempsey’s training quarters at Pine Hills Lodge in the High Sierras of Southern California, not far frpjn San Diego, was the locale for some of the action in “Womanpower,” Fox Films production, directed by Harry Beaumont which is the feature at the Maoriland Theatre on Saturday. Woman’s influence on man, for good or evil, as the ease may be, is the theme of “Womanpower.” In the play it is Ralph Graves’ life that is influenced by womanpower, as characterized by Margaret Livingston as the “menace” and Kathryn Perry for the uplift element. During one of his frequent visits to Margaret’s dressing-room in an exotic supper club where she is the premiere dancer, Ralph is given a good drubbing by Lou Tellegen, sophisticated admirer of the dancer. The humiliation of Graves reacts to spur him on to a course in physical training —in the art of self-defence. It is the activity pivoting about this sequence that takes the players to Pine Hills Lodge, paving the way to some of the most entertaining scenes, shot ihrough with comedy.

HOOT GIBSON ON MONDAY. A courageous but inexperienced young wife, who would rather wait table for rough but kindly eowboys than submit to the humiliation of a brutal husband is the plot of'Hoot Gibson’s picture “The Silent Rider” a Universal-Jewel production coming to the local theatre on Monday. ( The story is an adaptation of “The Red Headed Husband” a magazine story by Katherin Newlin Burt and deals with the maze of circumstances involving Gibson and his partner in a murder and payroll robbery and their subsequent vindication. The love theme is particulary appealing in that it shows that love of a mother for her ehild knows no bounds.

Blanche Mehaffey as the youpg wife, does by far the best acting of her short but colourful carepr before the screen in “ The Silent Rider. ” This is her second picture with Gibson but from all indications will not be her last.

The picture was directed, by Lynn Reynolds, who has directed a number of Gibson’s best pictures. An allfeature east supports Gibson and Miss Mehaffey.