MAORILAND THEATRE

Shannon News, 13 September 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE

JOHNNY HINES IN “STEPPING ALONG.” Twenty-two members of the ’ faststepping chorus furnish a background for Ann Pennington in her sensational “Black Bottom” number in George White’s “Scandal,” and they make their movie debut here in a theatre sequence for Johnny Hines’ comedy “Stepping Along,” the brisk farce oi New York politics, on Wednesday. The scenes were filmed at the Selwyn Theatre with the comedian’s new leading woman, Mary Brian, performing lively bits of terpsichore in front of the Broadway beauty chorus. Pretty close to a thousand extras were pan to occupy orchestra seats for the gaj goings-on and*,sixty bald-headed gen tlemen occupied the first two rows. JOHN BARRYMORE JN “DON JUAN.”- * John Barrymore, peer of all living actors, whose splendid work in “Beau Brummell” and “The Sea Beast” caused so much eulogistic comment, is to be seen at the local theatre on Friday in another exceptional Master Picture, “Hon Juan,” produced by Warner Bros. A splendid cast, including Mary Astor, Estelle Tay&or, June Marlowe, Montague Love, John.. Roche, Phyllis Haver and Helene. Costello, supports the star. Written about in almost every tongue —the inspiration of scores, nay hundreds, of artists, poets, musicians and dramatists —it is a moot question if a real Don Juan ever existed. Down through the centuries, the romantic figure of the greatest of all lovers has been surrounded with a virtual halo, so that to-day he has become a type, a symbol, a glory —almost a divinity. The original story of “Don Juan” was written by a Spanish Monk, Gabriel Tallez (1570-1648), whose secular works were presented to the Avorld under the pen name of “Tirsco de Molina.” As conceived by de Molina, the story Was intended to point a moral in favor of spiritual life. Subsequent attempts to create Don Juan have been more or less by de Molina’s conception of the character.