MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 16 March 1928, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

“UPSTAGE” —A FOOTLIGHTS

STORY,

What a dazzling list of successes there ' are to Norma Shearer’s credit. And what, a tribute they are to her versatility and genuine talent. Her latest “Upstage’’ has an appeal that will pass nobody by. Stage celebrities and critics everywhere have hailed it as the most elaborately conceived, most authentic, and most enthralling picture yet produced. Oscar Shaw, himself a famous musical comedy and vaudeville star, makes a brilliant screen debut opposite Miss Shearer. To the fascination of every stage story add daringlyconceived thrills—sum as a knifethrower with a shattered nerve hurling keen' blades with unsteady aim; add moments of pathos that leave the heart wrung; add love-scenes of nitrite appeal; add the .glamour and colour and throbbing romance of footlight life—and you have the merest fraction of the charm of “Upstage.” It will be screened on Saturday at Shannon. “ALL AROUND FRYING PAN.’’ In the language of the old circus davs “two big shows in one, and, all for the price of one admission!” There is more than a modicum of truth in that statement when it is applied to “All Around Frying Pan,” Fred Thomson’s most recent production . Which will be seen for the first time locally at the Alaoriland Theatre on Alonday. The Alturas Round-up, one of the outstanding cowboy contests of the great west, is filmed in a good deal of detail in this stirring picture, and with Thomson taking an active (a very active) part in the bucking contests. Silver King steps out of his usual equine roles for a moment and takes the part of a sunfishing, sidewinding, wild and woolly bronco. . It. is affine exhibition, - and truly representative of the west. The picture will be .shown at Tokomaru on Saturday. '■