MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 17 September 1929, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

HOOT GIBSON ON WEDNESDAY. By far the best and most entertaining Universal has turned out in some time is "Smilin' Guns," starring Hoot Gibson, which opens on Wednesday at the Maoriland Theatre. It presents the popular and versatile star in a new and entirely pleasing role. Portraying a devil-may-care but rather unkept cowboy, Hoot affords many laughs by his inimitable performance. But it is not until he decides to become a polished gentleman that the real laughs commence. There are spots in "Smilin' Guns" during which Hoot rises tQ>veritable heights as a comedian. "THE SPY*'—THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. When the- Great War came to a finish, it left chaos behind—not only in the

countries and nations, but also in the

soul of mankind, but there was one that derived profit from the chaGs existing in those leaderless souls of men. Nobody knows him. Nobody knows the exact whereabouts of his headquarters, from whence he is sending out his emissaries into the frightened world. But he is there, and the crimes committed in hia name, are incessantly augmenting. Murder, robbery, extortion — they form the evil triad of the shrill melody of high treason and terror, breach of faith and self annihilation, in which atmosphere all countries seem to tremble. Such was the state of the world ruled by "The Spy" until a greater and more potent force prevailed. But nobody even guesses that the cold-blooded leader of this witch-devil is'a lame Russian banker, "Haghi." There follows some of the most amazing sequences of thrills, plots, and coun-ter-plots, and train rmashes, in rapid succession ending with the suicide or the Arch Spy, Haghi,