MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 5 April 1928, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

SATURDAY— BUSTER KEATON IN “GO WEST."

Buster Iveatori—screendom’s droll kiug of pantomime and comedy—invades the great open spaces and shocks the orthod&x cowboys m “Go West " his newest and best comedy, coming to the Maoriland Theatre on, Saturday. In this latest laugh provoker the frozen-faced fun-maker runs the gamut of hilarious situations and thrilling escapades, and fully justifies press notices that “Go West" was his most novel and entertaining picture. “Go West" is typically Keatouesque in its treatment and humour, and in the development of its unusua. plot a vein of drama and pathos crops out that one moment excites an audience’s pity, and the next its most hilarious mirth. Fast and furious comedy, and a strongly defined romance, mhke this production exceptional entertainment. It depicts the ludicrous and yet thrilling adventures of a youth without personality, whose wanderings lead him eventually into the “great open spaces," where Fate catapults him into’a cowboy’s chaps and spurs. As a ranch hand ho is a scream. Thousands of cattle, scores of cowboys, special trains, a sensational hold-up by bandits in the middle of a desert, and 5000 wild steers careering through the main streets of a busy town —these are a few of the highlights of “Go West." Keaton portrays a role ideally suited to his inimitable type of screen clowning. It is by far his most elaborate and convulsing gloom chaser. ' Kathleen Mvers is his leading lady, and is supported by Howard Truesdale.

* MONDAY—

“THE WRECK."

If you like your screen melodramas to sizzle and. speed along at a breath- # less pace, then you must qot overlook. “The Wreck," the new Columbia production released by Master Pictures, which will be shown oi® Monday at the Maoriland /Theatre. This Dorothy Howell story, directed by William Craft, races by in exciting sequences to a happy climax, and gives little Shirley Mason one of the best roles of her genuinely successful career. Miss , Mason plays an innocent girl,, duped into a false marriage with.a crook, and subsequently held for one of his robberies. On her way to prison, the train is wrecked, and she is mistaken for the wife of-a wealthy-man. At, his mother’s home, sho recuperates and wins the love of the handsome hero — and Malcolm Mcfiregor is decidedly a lovable hero, who does some hard fighting to win the girl from the villain. Francis MacDonald and James Bradbury; Jr., play the crooks, and give forceful performances, and Frances Raymond makes an aristrocratic and , charming mother. There is also a pretty nurse named Barbara Tennant, and there are some realistic train wreck scenes.