MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 30 October 1928, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

BUCK JONES ON WEDNESDAY.

Fast action and thrilling fights centre about Buck Jones in "Black .' Jack,'' his latest production, for Fox Films. Barbara Bennett is ijhe girl, in the plot. * I Buck is one of the most daring actors o in the picture. First in. his list of ventures was his service in the United States Cavalry during the rebellion of Moros in the Philippines. Then he entered the aviation corps. When the war was over he started on his real career. He knew that his calling was riding. , ' He was the stellar horseman in Miller 's Wild West show and was billed • ~ is the champion.trick rider of the world. Besides mastering the ftunts of the cowboys, he learned those of the Russian Cossacks and added thrillers of his own. t . In "Black Jack" he gives exhibitions of more daring riding than ever before. The picture will have a showing at the local Theatre on Wednesday. LIFE ON CLIPPER REVIVED IN TENSE SEA DRAMA. Life aboard a clipper ship, such as plied the seas more than a hundred years ago, is lived in all its brutal and : elemental reality in "The Blood Ship," Columbia Pictures mighty drama of the sea, which comes to the local Theatre en Friday. The picture throbs with scenes of poignant anguish, the cruelty , . of a traditional man-handling skipyor being contrasted with the sweet, haunting romance of a lovely young girl and a two-fisted sailor lad. "The Blood Ship" is a pieturization of Norman Springer's novel of tlic same name. The splendid cast, which gives marvellous charactsrizations, is headed by Hobart Bosworth, Jacqueline Logan and Richard Arlen, the latter appearing through courtesy of Paramount-Famous Players, to whom he is under contract. George B. Seitz directed the production.