LYRIC PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 8 November 1922, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT. “PASSION FRUIT.” You have sensed tire lure of flaming, siren sunsets far away in the South Seas. You have wished you might go some day where palm trees arc spiky black against the gorgeous skies, where the surf booms lazily over hidden reefs and slides at last up to the broad beach, grey-white in the moonlight. It is a terrible witching part t,l<? earth, where both love and death come quickly as a typhoon. And you can go there, for one magic evening at least, if you but make it a point to see Doraklina in “Passion Fruit,” screening for one night only at the L. tie Pictures to-night (Wednesday). A; a supporting programme we lave secured a tiptop Chaplin Comedy, “ihe Squarehead,” also a Spotlight Comedy, “Father’s Hero,” a Ford Educational, and the latest English Gazette. FRIDAY NIGHT.

"HEADING WEST.” Laughs are in order for those who see <■ Headin' West,” the Universal photoplav of the new West in which Hoot Gibson is starred at the Lyric Ficlures next Friday. The star’s broad grin and his nerve are put to good use in the action of » breezy story written by Haney Tates and directed by William Craft. From the beginning the familiar Gibson smile is called for by one situation after another, and the Only better smile is the audience’s “trikes home. Entej;•yfcen the humor _ rng the story H’om the top-vm nu plane and parachute— the lieio s - adventure is trying to ride a hacking bronco on which n saddle has Lew strapped over a thorn with great cate. From then on the split is .fifty-fifty between humor and thrills. However, it is not all snappy comedy. The star has time in the passing of the ® tOl N 0 build up a definite characterization.