MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 15 November 1929, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

"STAUGIfCY BABY."

A regular cocktail of laughter is "Naughty Baby," which opens in Shannon on Saturday. With Alico White as the principal ingredient in the cocktail, this lively story moves along with a laugh a minute. Jack Mulhall is featured with Miss White, who has the role of a cheek girl at the Ritzy Hotel, and who is herself more ritzy than the establishment. Alice has no idea' of staying poor long, and when Jack comes into view with the intention of gilding the Great White Way with a broad brush, she has a great yearning to help in his noble work. Jack plays the role of the heir to millions who is + rying to spend a good part of it in advance.

"TALL TIMBERS." The public generally is more or less used to a certain amount of faked scenes in motion pictures, but there is nothing faked in the runaway trucks in "Tall Timbers," the Australian picture coming to Shannon on Monday. Two professional pugs were engaged for the fight scene, which is one of

genuine breath-taking violence, and with these two struggling on the swaying timber trucks, with the leading man, Eden Landeryou, the log train gained impetus on its downgrade sweep. Beyond control, and reaching a velocity of sixty miles an hour, the trucks flew with a hissing rush over a flimsy trestle bridge, one of the deepest ravines in the Great Dividing Range. It was expected any minute that the trucks Avould leave the rails, and that their human freight would be hurled to imminent death in the bould er-strewn gully, thousands of feet below. However, the trucks ran themselves to a standstill on an up-hill grade without any mishap, and the players concerned said that it would take a great deal of persuasion to induce them to repeat the performance.