MAORILAND PICTURES.
BASEBALL ON THE SCREEN. Baseball liberally mixed with comedy and romance, makes "Babe Comes Home," which the Maoriland Theatre is offering on Wednesday, the ranking sport picture of the, season At the head of the cast is George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, the baseball plavers, who. is resposible not only for the' thrilling baseball with which the picture is spiced, but also some excellent comedy character acting. Ruth extends his facility to film acting in surprising fashion. Opposite the sport idol is Anna Q. Nilsson, at her very best. The love affair worked out between the blonde Swedish star and Ruth is novel, comical, and at times touching; nothing of its kind has been seen before in all th'J screen's vast variety of romance combinations. Miss Nilsson enacts the role of a laundry girl who falls in love with the baseball star of the picture. Louise Fazenda is also featured in an exceptionally entertaining comedy part.
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Shannon News, 14 February 1928, Page 3
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157MAORILAND PICTURES. Shannon News, 14 February 1928, Page 3
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