THE MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 25 October 1927, Page 3

THE MAORILAND PICTURES.

"THE PERFECT SAP." ■ "$ There are two characters of fiction S around whom we have always thought j: i excellent moving pictures could be built Q —the would-be detective and the es- , K caped lunatic, harmless but humorous. / ../ And now First National has put the .'^ former into a film, which from ad- \-y vance reports from Broadways, should prove to be a comedy sensation. ■ ';, The correspondence school Sherlock ■' has been set down on celluloid in "The . . . Perfect Sap," with Ben Lyon featured. , \' "The Perfect Sap" is* due at the ■ ■-. Maonlnml on Wednesday. The hand- . [ some young Ben is cast as a rather ".; moist son of wealthy parents who grows decidedly manly when he takes to sleuthing the underworld a.nd) meets pretty Pauline Starke.. Virginia Lee \ Corbin, Sam Hardy, and Lloyd Whit- , --=

lock have roles in the supporting cast.

"WHAT PRICE GLORY." KEPT NEW YOEK LAUGHING FOR A FULL SEASON. _ • Every decade there appears on the theatrical horizon a stage or rcreeu presentation so powerful in its appeal, whether it be comedy or tragedy, that it at once radiates its fame to the remotest corners of the nation. It immediately grasps attention tnd becomes a byword and the topic of everyday conversation. Everyone will admit that' there is no more positive proof of this than "What Price Glory." As a stage play it was a sensation! Now comes along that most powerful and searching of all agencies that, reflect and recreate, the motion picture, and the sensation takes on all the widespread and interest arousing energy of a furore. This is exactly what has happened to William Fox's screen presentation of this celebrated play, which comes to the Maoriland Theatre on Fri- : day. It has rightly been termed "The ; World's Greatest Motion Picture."