MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 11 October 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

"McFADDEN'S FLATS."

"McFadden's Flats" has been shown on the stage in America for somewhat more than thirty years. It never was shown fewer than 500 times any year of that period, and a part of the time found not fewer than ten or twelve companies playing it. ,

As a result of this estimate, the statistician believes that it was seen by 50,000 audiences. Estimated ou a basis of 200 people to an audience — and that is a low estimate—lo,ooo,ooo people have seen the stage version of the old laugh-producer. Should the customary 80 prints be made for. the picture and these used but twice a day during the coming year the picture will be seen by 58,400 audiences. If the audiences average but 300—a low average for movie audiences —the antics of Charlie Murray, Chester Conklin and their associated funmak3rs will have been enjoyed by 17,520,000 people in the coming., twelve months!

Shannon residents will be amongst ■hese on Wednesday night.

"THE BELOVED ROGUE."

John Barrymore in "The Beloved Rogue," his first United Artists Picture, will be seen on Friday in Shaiinon. The film is Barrymore's first independent production %»r United Artsts release and it represent'? twice the time the star has devoted to any previous picture. As Francois Villon, th. 3 immortal French beggar-poet, Barrymore loves 'em and leaves 'em in fifteenth century Paris; he plays pranks on the King and the Duke of Burgundy, leads his beggar baud in routs and jousts, composes undying roundels in hovels while carousing inhabitants of the strange Court- of Miracles jostle each other; he loves and loses Charlotte de Vauxcelles, and wins her at the end.

Barrymore is Villoji, the heart-aud-jail-break-ing idol of the underworld of Paris, the crackling personality that ;nspir?d the pens of Swinburne and Robert Louis Stevenson. Conrad Veidt, the great German character actor, is King Louis XI —his first role in an American production. Mareeline Day is Charlotte.