LYRIC PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 11 December 1922, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES.

“THE REFEREE.’’ WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A big double feature programme is advertised for the Lyric Pictures for next.,.Wed££sdav. at 7.45 p"m. sharp. “The Referee’’ offers Conway Tearle the type of role his admirers have long wished he would play. The’re is perhaps no screen star of the day more fitted to play the part of a lighting referee forced by circumstances into the most trying situations of his thrilling life. John McArdle has a conscience cultivated and strengthened from his youth up by the teaching of his mother. At twenty-four he is the reoognised middle-weight champion of the world. But a motor-car accident injures his arm so badly that he is fore-! ed to abandon his career when it is at its crest. So John McArdle enters the business world. But the lure of the prize-ring is too strong for McArdle to deny, and he becomes a referee. Thus matters stand when the present middleweight champion is scheduled to fight another tough customer. Rudy Metzker, promoter of the fight, plans to make the battle a dishonest one for the good of his own purse. The fight is ‘On! The arena is jammed with fight fans crazy for action, crying for first blood! The gong clangs! Action! The fighters step gracefully about the ring, their muscles moving like slick ribbons under their skin, their eyes narrowed and eager for the first advantage. There is a blow under the belt. Someone cries, “Foul!’’ The crowd shrieks. The referee steps forward, “Honest John!' McArdle! Then the real, mightiest fight of all begins. The additional six-reel feature from the Goldwyn studios is a thrilling storyentitled “The Cup of Fury/’ and judged from every angle of production is a notable triumph. It is a triumph for the great revolutionary step which has Been taken by the Goldwyn in effecting the personal co-operation of authors l in the screening of their stories. Sup- ; porting films include- comedy, scenic, land gazette.