MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 13 November 1925, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

"WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS." Locked in furious battle, they spin from side to side in the dawn-touch-ed room-vthe man she loves and the treacherous trader • who* swore he would have her for his own. Matilda, daughter of a missionary, almost frantic from her night-long experience in a tropical storm, is stunned into immobility -as she watches the struggle between these two men of the South Seas, fighting silently, with passionate hate for life and love. Chairs are smashed, a table tips over, a gun flashes in the half light of early morning. Her lover or his' enemy? ' You'll kmow if you see "Where the Pavement Ends," Rex Ingram's latest production for Metro,. to be screened at the iMaoriland Theatre to-night. "BULLDOG DRUMMOND.'*

A whirling melodrama calling for some strenuous acting on the part of the principal players is 'Sapper's" "Bulldog Drummond," which has been adapted to the screen and will be presented at the Maoriland Theatre on Saturday. Bight through the picture it is practically impossible to guess what is ahead. When something does happen it is about the last thing one would expect, and the deft twist in the final scenes comes as a bolt from the blue. Those who see the picture will be doing their friends, who have not, already seen it, a good turn by refraining from giving away the surprise, finish. A plot somewhat akin to the "Sherlock Holmes" stories, concerning a gang of international "Crooks'' into whose hands a rich young man—one Hiram G Travers-has fallen, is unfolded, with hot a little dexterity. Captain Hugh Drummond, the very adventurous young officer who finds himself,- at' the behest of a distraught young lady, suddenly taking the hading part in upsetting the machinations of the murderous gang, is a character calling for niiuch resource. "THE SIGN OF THE CACTUS." . Towering Imountain peaks and biawling rivers form the scene background for the rapid action of 'The Sign of the Cactus," Blue Streak Western, starring Jack Hoxie and to be shown in the Maoriland theatre next Monday. The .picture was Aimed in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the company making its headquarters in Sonora, a little city nestled m the section of California made lamous bv Bret Harte. The* story told .by "The Sign ol the Cactus'' is that of the struggle of ranchers who contend that they have been deprived of their natural water rh'hts by an irrigation company that induced "them by unkept promises to place themselves at the mercy of the company.