LYRIC PICTURES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 May 1918, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES.

—Friday Evening—

"The Pinch Hitter"—A Triangle picture produced under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince, presents Charles Ray in the character of Joel Parker, known among the inhabitants of Turkey Creek as the " bashfulest critter in the country and sort of dummified." He finally gains permission from his crabbed old father to attend Williamson College. Looking not unlike Ichabod Crane, he invades the campus and is greeted as a prehistoric animal by a squad of college boys, who straightway conduct him to the " Students Progressive Cream Puff Par].or," and exhibit him to the pretty proprietor, Abbie Nettleton. She sympathises with the gawky youth and encourages him to try out in the baseball tea. At first he is put on as mascot, but his chance comes, and he wins a spectacular victory for the school. Incidentally he wins the love of a girl and the respect of his crusty father, Obediah. A splendid comedy figures amongst the supporting items.

—Saturday Evening—

"Reggie Mixes In" —featuring Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love—Reggie, fresh from college and the pampered pet of the family, is engaged to a society girl, to whom his bank account looks good. Out for a run in his car, he finds a lost child and takes it to its home in the Bowery. There ha meets a girl who is working as a dancer in Gallaghner's saloon, but who is not the usual type and whose people have come down in the world. In order to be near her lie takes rooms near the saloon, and, dressing in Bowery fashion, watches her. Getting into a gang fight he climbs a chandellier, and is told by the girl that he is afaid. Later in the day he rescues her from one of the gang and is offered the position of " chucker out" in the saloon. Stung by the girl's taunt he accepts. Tony, leader of the gang, sends some of his men to do for Reggie. He beats them out, and later Tony challenges him to fight for the girl. Then follows a most exciting fight, and Reggie wins out, he and the girl managing to escape. Then comes the task of getting Reggie's people to accept the dancing girl. This he does by faking a legacy from her brother in Australia.

The second episode of Gloria's Romance, entitled " Caught by the Seminoles," and a big supporting programme will be screened.

—Tuesday Evening—

" The Hungry Heart " —Frou Frou, a young frivolous woman marries a man older than herself. To them a child is bom, but she still keeps up her frivilous habits, and eventually her elder sister invited to the home, begins to run the establishment. The sister has long been in love with the husband. When she arrives she soon usurps Frou Frou's place in the home and the child's affections. Slowly the truth dawns on the butterfly wife, and when an old lover presses his love she runs away with him. The husband follows, and fights a duel, killing the lover. / Broken in health and griefstricken, the wife seeks forgiveness of her husband. She dies in his arms, but not before securing her wishes, among them the promise for the sister to marry the husband and mother the child. The supporting programme is of high order and includes the big Keystone comedy " His Lost Scent."