MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 7 August 1928, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

TOM MIX AND TONtf.

WITH .TWILIGHT .! DANCING.

Supported by aii excellent east and • supplied with one of the most thrilling novels of the west, Tom Mix as . iTonv.Greer. gives a performance with . plenty of thrills .River,'' f a new k Fox Films PMn'c'tion,' coming to . MaoJ-Maard^Tfieitr^W : ;Wednesday . .;in pro- . gramme that has;;pr^vedsso*sapular. In this production Mix is owner of ,1 a stock ranch and a fellow who is |J known for his breed of fine horses and .\ 'his devotion'..to ..the.,: apimjjlsv Vile is a.? connoisseur -on well b.r.e,d of the J west' '' ll?s Vwo prize * * are Tony and Buster. They/meftn more $ to Tom than all his other worldly pos- l\ sessions and when the cattle rustlers ' : \ steal Buster, that is where the hot \\ action begins. Tony is just as anxious ;t as Tom to chase down the thieves, ; fa# h Mix • and Tony do some • of, their • brilliant' riding" feats- and stunts r through the desert on the trek for the , lost Buster. Neither Tom nor Tony ,\ are daunted and the .plot is fast and ',' furious until of. the picture where Tom' outwits the rustlerß and regains his lost horse and the girl '', he loves. '

"THE MERRY WIDOW."

CHORUS GIRL TO PRINCESS. . ,1 ~...,^v^o:,^^::.^^'^:-r ; V^ A story of Kings' Courts and Pnn- :, ces' courtships, told amidst the pictwr- ,| esque beauty of "the Balkans. The tare > of a pretty young dancing girl,who became betrothed to a Prince,'but was jilted on her wedding day because'; j he was of the; BloodßgyaJ, 1 but a commoner. But when she inheri- j ted the fortune behind throne, i •h'owi she embarrassed that Court, d,aneing:the whiie'to the tune ofvtinkling j,glasses, oarid trippingl'over tiiaseuline h'eaits.' What i!se'n3ation she;caused, . {specially jn the heart of her Royal lover! —'"'The Merry Widow" can ncv-i-er.'be.'forgotten. Metro-Goldwyn-May-er's screen reproduction of the dazzling musical comedy-drama 'ia' to be night,'. John Gilbert interprets the impetuous Prince Danilo, and gives a most sin-;-'cere 'iind skilful" 'presentation jpf that yoiingt;piah's voihantjc and 'jealous lemperainerii;' ,R6y * l)'Arey as the Crown Prinee -gets' over some clever heart-breaks on'.his brother; Mae Murray is at her very best as ,Sally. .O'Hara; Ge.Qrge >Fawcett 'plays ; a dipiorrtatic a6iuging "King Nikita.