MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 23 December 1927, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

"BROWN OF HARVARD." There is a quality about "Brown of Harvard," the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, that makes it one not to be easily forgotten. It might be any one of a number of appealing, fascinating features, or the combined effect of all, or the inspired action of the principal jplayers —William Haines, Jaek Piekford and Mary Brian. Whatever the cause, the effect remains unusual and-memorable. t The University of Harvard is the locale of the new picture. A bumptious, but intensely, likeable, freshman arrives there and immediately lands himself into an embroyo love affair with a professor's daughter, which leads to numerous quarrels. It is with the -subsequent happenings, leading to Brown's eventual rise in popularity, and final graduation, that the story concerns itself.

Thrilling contests on the football *eld and rowing course take a very definite place in the picture; the amazingmanner in which they have been photographed brings to the Screen all the intense excitement of actual events. To the great sporting public of Australia and New Zealand, it comes as a refreshing novelty. It will be screened in Shannon on Saturday. "THE ESCAPE." Eapid fire, whirlwind action and a beautiful love story of a woman's faith is "The Escape," starring Pete Morrison which is to head Monday's Morrison is a perfect type of man who is admired by men and women., He is a big, perfectly proportioned man, who rides with consummate skill. As an actor,he has few peers. He has finally gainejd the recognition due him and will appear in many more pictures of this type, we hope. As the leading woman. Barbara Starr, Harold Lloyd's sister-in-law, makes an exceptionally appealing figure. She is very pretty and a capable actress. No better pair of leads could have been chosen than these two. Frank Norcross is an old timer in films and adds a dignity and charm to his performance that wSU win, him many hearts. Playing the role of Miss Starr's father,, he gives a convincing and sincere characterisation. Good old Western action, a love story and a good dose of comedy, completes the picture which was directed by Milburne Morante. "THE CLASH OP WOLVES." The Master Picture, "The Clash of the Wolves," will be shown on Tuesday. It is the latest of the series of. pictures that Warner Brothers have turned out with the dog, Kin-Tin-Tin, in the star role. It shows Bin Tin-Tin as Lobo, the leader of ( a pack of wolves, who are driven from the forests of the high Sierras down into the cattle country by a tremendous fire, which, by the way, makes an amazing and thrilling screen spectacle. Lobo gets befriended bv a young borax prospector (Charles Farrell), who takes a leaf from the book of Androcles and extracts a thorn from the beast's paw. The story concerns the clash of the wolf's protector with the hunters who are on the animal's trail.