MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 29 July 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

STIRRING WESTERN MELODRAMA "Driftin' '*' Dan Brown never knows what the next, day is to bring, and, what is more, he doesn't care over much. Daring his aimless wanderings, he decides to make his way to a small western town to try his luck. After stealing his way on trains, he arrives at rhe place wherein a gambling casino gives him the chance of staking a few dollars. After a series of lucky wins he succeeds in breaking the bank. A fight follows, and the proprietor, "Bull" Dunn, is killed, suspicion falling on Dan. In his efforts to escape he loses all his winnings, but with the aid of a girl, and after a series of hazardous duties and dodgings, he manages to escape the sheriff, and takes refuge in a hut of a prospector, some distance from the town. Thrilling events follow and are the subject of Saturday's picture at the Maoriland Theatre'.

"THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING.' '

A crack at the popular conception of screen stars is taken in an interesting manner in "The Whole Townjs Talking," the .picture which opens at Ihe local theatre on Monday. The ttoiy, after a fashion, revolves around, the mythical affair between Edward Everett Horton, as the small town "..ap," and Dolores Del Eio as the screen vamp. The people of Horton's town consider him a frightful rake and as a result he becomes a town figure, a sort of local celebrity. Events in h;,s life become tangled and the movie vamp arrives in town and proves herself a real sport by telling the truth — that she had never even met Horton. Motion picture people are at a loss as to how to impress on the country that they are human beings the same as anyone else. Their public life keeps them constantly in the limelight and they can't even take a vacation without being sought out and pointed at. Sometimes they rebel at this, but they know that it is the public that pays their tremendous salaries sc they take it good-naturedly.