LYRIC PICTURES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 June 1917, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES.

Friday—Another of those Keystone comedies into which Mack Sennett has lately been getting novel and laughable stunts. The picture, which is called "The Snow Cure," featuring Ford Sterling who decides he needs sanitarium treatment, so the snow cure doctor straps him down on a table, lets a bear loose in the place, and then the real fun starts. There is probably the greatest |collection of fat and lean people in this picture ever seen together, and it is a veritable fun riot. Saturday—" Iris," Pinero's famous i drama, adapted to the screen by the Hep worth All-British Co It is a masterpiece of film production in every sense of the word. Alma Taylor and Henry Ainley, two of London's most talented artists, are cast in the star roles. The subject is a risky one for a fim play, but such is the direction with which it is handled that the question of censorship simply doesn't arise. There is a supporting programme, including a good I Keystone comic. Tuesday—"The Rosary." This big picture, which extends over seven reels of film, does not allow the interest to flag throughout the whole screening The subject it developed in a religious manner, and is presented in an intensely dramatic fashion, which should fit the film to be added to the long list of 'successful pictures shown at the Lyric, Miss Kathlyn Williams, of "The Adventures of Kathlyn" serial, is cast in the star role.