MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 4 December 1928, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

A WESTERN DRAMA. The programme on Wednesday will be headed by a thrilling Western drama in which Hoot Gibson is the star performer. It is entitled “The Flying Cowboy” and i 3 supported by a • splendid series of topics, comedies and shorter films.

FRIDAY—“THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS.”

Someone has said that youth will be served on the screen as well as elsewhere—but superlative acting ability amd lovable personality frequently •rive age its innings. Theie is the case of Alec B. Francis, never so fatuous in his long stage and .screen career as he is now, grey-haired and mellowed by his years, whimsical, kindly r.nd philosophic. lie is coming to the Maoriland Theatre on Friday in a film production that w ill add! a striking role to his record.- The picture is “The Shepherd of the Hills,” FirstNational’s big dramatic production of Harold Bell Wright’s famous . novel; in which Mr Francis plays the title iole. Youth is served, of course, in other characters of the picture; two charming romances occupy an important place in the unfbliditng of the story. Molly O’Day and John Boles are the romantic Raids, and a- love affair of rare beauty in the retrospect is enacted by John Westwood and Marion Douglas. Matthew Bc-tz is the villain of the piece, and among oth?r capable actors ini the east are Romainc Fielding, Otis Harlan. Joseph Bennett and little Maurice Murphy.