LYRIC PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 6 November 1922, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT. "PASSION FRUIT." Doraldina, known far and wide fo her daring interpretations of unfaiui! iar Hawaiian dances, is Hie star i: "Passion Fruit," the Metro productioi which comes as the feature attractioi at the Lyric Pictures next Wednesday This wonderful creature who was si idolised and popular on the stage will her hula dances bring- to the screei both a superb gift for acting and i marvellous dancing ability. Xot onlj that, but she introduces into the pic ture many strange dances of the South Sea Islands never hitherto seen. One is a religious dance, called "Dance of the White God," a weird original movement used by the superstitious natives as part of their ritual. How she does a wild hula dance to save the man she loves is a moment in a story grippingly tense and absorbingly fascinating, where brute force and woman's will clash for supremacy. In support of this film we have a Charlie Chaplin comedy "The Squarehead." a Spotlight comedy. "Father's Hero," and the latest English Gazette.

FRIDAY NIGHT. "HEADING WEST." Smiling Hoot Gibson is coming to the Otaki theatre on Friday. lie will be seen in tho starring characterization of "Headin.' AVest," Many a story has been written and many a picture filmed on the basis of the expression, "up in the air." But: Gibson is really there in tho opening scenes of "Headin' West," in which he enacts the part of an American veteran of the war who returns home in time to steal his own ranch from himself and get branded as an impostor. In addition to "Headin' West" a full supporting programme includes a Century Comedy and the 17th chapter of "The Lure of the Circus" serial. Prices are as usual. Mr Morse has decided that, in future, the pictures will lie under the name Of "Lyric." On Wednesday he will give his first programme here, and it is hoped that he will be greeted with a big house.