MAORILAND THEATRE

Shannon News, 30 August 1927, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE

ERROL’S NEW COMEDY PACKED WITH THRILLS. V A wedding in a dirigible starts off the thrills iii First National’s latest comedy, “The Lunatic at Large,” which comes to the Shannon Theatre on Wednesday, starring Leon Errol and Dorothy Mackaill. Kenneth Mac Kenna’s twin brother in the picture was Kenneth placed in an asylum while he rushes away with Ken’s" girl (Dorothy Mackaill), whom he is going to wed in a dirigible. Leon Errol gets hold of a rope ladder, and makes his way into the dirigwhile it is rising, and as a result, there is no wedding, but one of the biggest thriils in pictures when Leon grabs Dorothy around the waist and leaps from the dirigible in a parachute, and descends several thousand feet to the ground. There are enough thrills in this one sequence to satisfy most people for life, for, in the end the dirigible blows up and disappears in smoke and a cloud of flame.

This is said to be Errol’s greatest comedy vehicle, and was filmed from J. Store Clouston’s three famous books, “The Lunatic at Large,” “The Lunatic at Large Again,” and “The Lunatic Still at Largo.”

“THE VANISHING RACE.” AN EPIC OF THE RED INDIANS Thundering hoofs beat their hollow sound on the broad, monotonous plains again. Feathered arrows cleave the air once more. The Indians have taken the warpath! Reviving the days of the most liero.oic battles of one Indian tribe against another are the scenes in “The Vanishing Race.” Paramount’s film version of Zane Grey’s epic of the Red Man, shows the conquering of one great red tribe over another, the victory of the ravaging of the Navajo nation ( by the white men and finally,' a huge uprising of the Indians against their white oppressors. Teif*thousand of them, iwo legions, took part in the filming of “The Vanishing Race,” in which Richard Dix portrays the Indian hero. In endless clouds they swept by the cameras, forgetting it was just makebelieve at times, making it difficult to control them. But because of enthusiasm that almost bordered on leal blood-thirst, Director George B. Seitz was able to obtain scenes that could not be duplicated. Whlie these scenes form only one of the thrilling features of Zane Grey’s powerful stary of the depredations practised upon the Red Man, they are vitallv real.

In adition to Richard Dix, the featured players are Lois Wilson, Noah Beery and Malcolm McGregor. The screening takes place in Shannon on Thursday and Friday.