MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 6 November 1925, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“GRIT” ON SATURDAY. A Carl Laenmile production will be screened on Saturday. It is entitled “Grit.” The scene is laid in the Bowery and East Side oi' New York. The pathos of life under the shadow of the Elevated, or in the dingy tenement, the code of the gansters which spoils death for betrayal, the innermost secrets of these defiants of law and order, are picturesquely and most entertainingly, told. The specta lor is taken back twenty years ago and longer, and under the spell of the silver sheet, is brought face to face with life as it actually existed in those trying days, when it took real grit to fight the battles of existence, and when tbe lack of grit, was a handicap which one could hardly hope to cope with. In the screen version of “Grit," the spectator is given an inside view of how gangland lives, how its plans are laid and carried ont and how it revenges itself for any violation or infraction of its drastic code. Also, one may get an idea of the lighter'side of Lower East Side life. There are intimate glimpses of Chinese opium dens and gangland resorts which have been faithfully reproduced as ihev existed a decade ago.

“THE MAD WHIRL.” Angered becaulse the young man witli whom she was in love had broken Ills promise to her and proved to her that ti’er father was right in his opinion of the youth, fhe girl became a flaming instrument of punishment: then she eloped with the man she bad horse-whipped. This is one of the big dramatic scenes in “The Mad Whirl,” Universal-Jewel all star production to be screened in Shannon oil Monday. May NlcAvoy is the featured plaver and others in the cast are .Tack Mulhall. Myrtle Stedman, Barbara Bedford, Alec. R. Francis, Ward Crane, George Fawcett, Mairie Astaire and Joseph Singleton. “Here’s How., written b Richard "Washburn _ Child, former minister to Ttaly supplied die screen with this story.