MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 22 October 1929, Page 2

MAORILAND THEATRE.

"THE COUNT OF TEN." Delightful screen fare for even the most discriminating of film patrons is provided in' the Universal Jewel attraction, "The Count of Ten," which will be screened at the Maoriland Theatre on Wednesday. The story concerns the attempts of a promising young prize fighter to provide a worthy home and livelihood for his pretty young wife and her lazy father and young brother. The two latter people are the flaw in an otherwise happy home, and when the young brother forges a cheque, requiring the immediate payment of an immense sum of money, and misleads the boxer by intimating that the money is wanted for hospital attendance on his wife, he is compelled to enter into a fight with a broken hand, after having quarreled with his manager, who was against the fight. Needless to say, the hero loses the fight and gets a terrific punishment. This ■brings his late manager 'to his side, and he exposes the family. The climax is very gripping and rounds off a thoroughly entertaining picture. Charles Bay as the prizefighter, anil Jobyna Ralston as his wife, play the principal roles. Others in the case are James Gleason, Edythe Chapman, Arthur Lake and Charles Sellon,

MYSTERY MELODRAMA STARS LAURA LA PLANTE. The lure of the mysterious—the fascination of the unknown —and the love of the world to solve crime problems—all of these partly explain the unprecedented popularity which has attended the viewing of Universal's mystery-

picture, "The Last Warning," with Laura La Plante as the lead.

"The Last Warning," by Thomas F. Fallon, was one of .the most successful mystery plays ever to be seen on Broadway. It was staged from the book, "The'House of Fear," by Wadsworth Camp. The motion picture was based on the play. All the ingredients of mystery have been jammed into tli3 photoplay. Mysteiy and terror which bring forth screams from the audience, and laughter —not the laughter that a farce comedy produces —but the almost hysterical laughter of highly keyed nerve? stimulated by relief from a fearful situation.