LYRIC PICTURES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 August 1917, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES

—Friday— The four-reel Triangle comedy to be presented at the Lyric is unusual in more ways than one. In the first place the scenario is not only written by Keystone Fatty, but the picture was directed by him, and he takes the leading part—that of the cook in the cheaprestaurant. Playing opposite him is Al St. John, the acrobatic member of the Company. St. John is the buick-fire waitar. There is no time lost when he and Fatty get busy. When the time comes to go to Jthe Grand Ball, to he held under the auspices of the Amalgamated Association of Animated Waiters there are laughable complications, The management states that this comedy is easily the most laughable farce they have shown. There will be a strong dramatic supporting play called " The Littlest Magdalene." . —Saturday— " Wicked New York," one of the most perfectly staged and engrossing dramas yet to appear on the Gold Rooster programme. It is a social play with a fully rounded plot and clean well-defined development which enables the spectator to interpret the signification and follow the process of action without the slight est difficulty. It is a problem t6 decide whether the production or the acting is the paramount achievement, for both are all they should be, and combine in a telling whole. The cast is a remarkable one. Florence Reed is featured. Her fine emotionalism, not in the least overacted, bespeaks her talent for motion picture work. The efforts of the actress, who jhas not long been seen on the screen, put a pointed fervor into the spirit of the picture which raises her to a pinnacle by herself, in spite of the ex- | cellent acting of the strong supporting cast. —Tuesday— In "A Modern Joan of Arc," presented by /the Triangle Fine Arts Company, Dorothy Gish and Owen Moore appear in a diverting travesty of the young society miss who relieves the tedium of existence by reforming the " lower orders," the said orders in this case being an expugilist who keeps a low-down saloon, and his unsavory patrons who consume his vile whisky. The reformation is a failure, but all ends well, the climax being a sensational and realistic fight between Larry O'^iell (Owen Moor) and the ex-pugilist, for the rescue of the lady from the clutches of the latter. " She Won the Prise,"—All that glitters may not be gold, but Molly Moore, " steno" to Charles Adams, certainly does glitter as if she had gold when she appears at Lakewood. After winning 1000 dol. in a scenario contest, Molly decides to have a good time. With the aid of a blond wig. the make-up box and some swell clothes, she makes a noise like an heiress and gets away with it. Her boss conies to Lakewood and fails to recognise her in her finery. When the boss' fiancee becomes infatuated with a count and returns his engagement ring, Molly tries to console him, and he becomes interested in her. Later, Molly exposes the count as a waiter, and he does as much for her. Back in the office once more Adams sees that Molly has supplanted his fiancee in his affections, and she gladly accepts a secondhand engagement ring. [Advt.