MAORILAND THEATRE

Shannon News, 20 September 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE

“THE WHITE BLACK SHEEP.’’

Richard Barthelmess has the leading role in “White Black Sheep,” to be . screened on Wednesday night in Shannon. This is a tale of a gay young ; Englishman engaged to a girl whoso, chief claim to his affection is that she forms a placid mirror for the romantic idealism of the boy. When he discovers that she is a petty thief, filching money at a bridge game, the youth, in a grand-eloquent gesture, shoulders the blame and turns into a self-imposed exile in the British army in northern Palestine. There, morbidly moodiug over his blighted dreams, he rouses the love of a pretty dancing girl and the hate of a desert chieftain. /His adventures in warring with one - and wooing the other form the plot of one of the most absorbing films shown here in months. There is a picturesque desert setting, a thrilling uprising of the Arabian tribes, and a clever subterfuge which turns a possible mass- , acre into a military victory. ‘For a part of the picture Dick is disguised \ as a deaf and dumb beggar of Kefr , Saba, in- which he does some remark- " able acting. -

“NIGHT OP LOVE.” With hand to hand fighting between , dazed Spanish grandees and courageous outlaws; udth a Moorish Bacchanalian orgy featuring beautiful women dancing to the cracking music of a Spanish bull whip;®with fights and duels and a marvelously impressive “miracle”; tender love scenes and a dozen spectacles rolled into one, the George Fitzmaurice production of “The. Night of Love,” which comes to the local theatre on Friday should please everybody. In a big scene of the picture Ronald Column faces death at the stake with the lighted fagots already flflam--ing around his knees. In one of the ; opening scenes, the beautiful Vilma Banky hurls herself over a 500-foot ■. cliff, rather than suffer at the hands of’ the bandit. The picture is replete with £ thrills enough for a dozen production. *