MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 9 August 1929, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“THE BARKER"—WEDNESDAY. •> ——. *-t Rather rough-cut, occasionally sexy, but unusually colourful is “The Bar- j ker,”\ starring Milton Sills, and directed by George Fitzmaurice. This picture tells the inside story of side-show car- f nival life. It is done with accuracy, great skill and strong emphasis on the : dramatic elements. It portrays a fath- u er-and*son devoticn and conflict, and may be rated as high in its appeal to the smarter types of audience, while others will probably not find it lacking. The father is the barker of the hootch dance of the sideshow. He has kept 1 his son in ignorance of the easy life \ that he leads in this institution. sThe son is curious, and rides the rails to [ see him. Against his parent’ opposition, the' boy manages to remain with , the carnival. He is taken under his sire’s protection, thereby arousing the enmity of the father’s sweetheart, who , induces another girl of loose reputa- ‘ tion to make the boy fall in love with her.

. '.JS, “PLAYING STRAIGHT”—MONDAY V ' , Bob Cantfield and Vivian Sanders ar- ■. rive at Carver College the same day . and become victims of a hazing prank which fills the youth with chagrin and '‘j shame, and sends the fair maiden haughtily away. , Bob is asigned to a room with one of his hazers, Jim Halloran. Jim refuses to admit Bob and a fistic en- , counter follows in which Bob shows his mettle. The two become staunph friends. At a college dance, Bob and Vivian ■ are introduced and launch into a pret- - . <ty romance, with Jim as the third an- - gle in .a triangle. ' See this picture at the Maoriland Theatre on Monday night. “Playing Straight” is the kind of picture that appeals to all' —young and old —whether they have gone to college, are , planning to go, or perhaps never will go. There is a certain glamohr about college days that endures forever, and helps to make college stories popular.