MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 27 September 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

"TWINKLESTOES" ON WEDNESDAY. The film production of one of Thomas Burke's most famous Limehouse tales, '' Twinkletoes,'' will head an excellent entertainment bill a,t the MaorlianS Theatre on Wednesday with Colleen Moore —ingolden curls instead of her sleek, dark bob —in the leading role. Throughout the film is the colorful atmosphere of the world's most storied waterfront slum. Depicting famous characters of the Burke story is a group of noted supporting players, among whom are Kenneth Harlan, Gladys Brockwell, Warner OlandjTully Marshall, Julanne Johnston, Lucian Littlefield and John Phillip Kolb. Unnamed on the screen, but effective in a great diversity of picturesque types and characters, are many other players who represent the swarming, colourful mixture of race? found in that crossroads and melting pot of the world, London Limehouse. Beauty as well as squalor is to be found in the Limehouse picture and particularly in a sequence wherein one hundred and twenty pretty girls dance. The general air of danger, mystery, and intrigue of the slum lends itself well to a plot that is full of suspense and thrills.

"OH! WHAT A NURSE!"

"Oh! What a comedy!"

Syd Chaplin proved in "Charley's Aunt" and "The Man on the Box" that he knew how to get the laughs. But he gets as many in "Oh! What a Nurse!" as in the two other pictures together. Chaplin appears as a newspaper re-, porter, who dives from a ferryboat to rescue a girl, and gets picked up by a rum running tug, and who is forced into the costume of a bootleg queen in order to divert suspicion from the realculprit. Like any good newspaper man, the reporter, with an assignment to cover, does not pause even to change his clothes when, he has a job to be attended to. The result is that, in the bootleg queen's outfit, he runs into a maze of trouble, and, to get himself out of it, seizes a nurse's costume. From then on, his adventures are indescribably comical. The picture will be screened on Fridav in Shannon.