MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 9 December 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

"UPSTREAM." Humor and pathos, coupled with stirring action along New York's Great White Wav, have been adroitly blended by John Ford in "Upstream," Fox Films version of Wallace Smith's story, "Tho Snake's Wife," which opens at the local theatre on Saturday. ' Earle Foxe and Nancy Nash have the featured roles. The .locale of this really human and finely wrought picture, is New York. The New York= of theatrical boarding house, roaring'forties and Broadway. But the story which "Upstream" unfolds is of the lives of evervday people, though in this case it is" revealed . that these everyday people are mostly actor folk. "THE PRAIRIE KING." Another banquet for picture-lovers with an appetite for western melodrama with all the accompanying action; thrills, suspense and love, will be dished up for the patrons of the Maoriland Theatre when "The Prairie King," a Universal-Jewel, is screened on Monday. , The famous Hoot Gibson, "ace" of Western stars, is cast in a new role in this exciting iphotodrania of the great open spaces. For the nonce he forsakes his old calling of chaperoning cows and takes on the habiliments of a prospector in search of gold. The beautiful titian-haired Barbara Worth plays the part of the captivating heroine and displays a vivacity, winsome charm and finesse that will win many adherents to her banner. The villain is Albert Priscoe, and ameaner screen rascal does not exist. The rest of the cast includes Charleß Sellon and Kosa Gore, two past masters in the art of creating gales of laughter where gloom reigned before.