LYRIC PICTURES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 11 April 1918, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES.

—Friday Evening—

"The Men She Married" — This splendid story, starring Miss Gail Kane, is a clever film adaption of a daring story by Harold Vickers in the " Snappy Stories " magazine. Mr Arthur Ashly and Miss Muriel Ostriche play up to Kane in this story. Miss Muriel Ostriche is credited with being the daintiest ingenue on the screen, and she presents a surpassing picture of confiding girlish passion in this play. The story has a fascinating plot and is full of unexpected crucial situations. A splendid comedy is featured amongst the supporting films. —Saturday Evening— "The Bondage of Fear" — Vesta Wheatly and Dick Mortimer have been friends since childhood, but when he declares his love and asks her to marry him, she tells him their friendship is too pleasant to spoil by love-making. John Randolph, a wealthy city man, is attracted to Vesta, a romance develops which culminates in a quiet wedding. Later Dick follows them to their country lodge, and during the husband's absence enters. Vesta resents his declaration of love., and begs him to leave her, The door is burst open, and Skinny, a a gangster, enters. In the struggle that ensues Dick is killed by Skinny. Vesta grabs the pistol, and holding Skinny at bay, prepared to 'phone the police, but Skinny tells her it will create a scandal. Cowed by his threats, Vesta is compelled to watch in silence as he drags Dick's lifeless body away. Although her husband suspects nothing, Vesta is haunted with memories of Dick's murder, and Skinny, by frequent blackmail, keeps alive the memory. At last she can bear it no longer, and when Sfcinny comes again, she seizes the pistol and kills. Then she 'phones the polioe that a burglar is there, and they arrive they pronounce the killing is self-defence, and all ends happily. * —Tuesday Evening— "The Lottery Man" — The hero (Thurlow Bergen) is a young man who is the hero of his college, a great athlete and a good sport. Coming home for vacation he finds his mother has lost al* her fortune, and is actually taking in sewing to keep things going. He sets out to find work and "meets a rich college chum and his sister Helen. The rich, boys gets a reporter's position for his friend. The new reporter works hard, but nothing sensational happens, and he lights upon, a brilliant idea. He puts himself up as a matrimonial prize at a dollar a time, A coupon is issued which coßts a dollar, entitling the' holder to 100,000 dollars and the young man as husband. If she wins the prize and doesn't want the husband, she can forfeit half the prize. He calculates that there are 500,000 women who will buy a ticket. All goes smoothly, but he falls in love with Helen and she with him. Helen and her brother make a great attempt to corner the market in coupons, but her big fat cook wins the prize. Then things move some, but the end is fine.