LYRIC PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 8 January 1923, Page 2

LYRIC PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT. "WAITING FOB DAWN." Midnight. Out through the window tho tiny stars winked down luriugly. A lazy nioo# languidly lifted itself above the temples the other side of tho river. A night bird cried. A shooting star flashed to earth, and a newborn babe ue=tled closely to its desert mother, as the flap swayed with the tepid night wind. Palm whispered secrets of "a thousand years to each other, then all was still. Within the room, Sava Toronthal, beautiful and graceful, moved uneasily, Suddenly she dropped to a divan in the gorgeous room, and wept. Desperately she turned over in her mind the inevitable events which must happen with tho coming of dawn. Desperately she tried to find the way out. There was nonel She must marry Sarcaay, a fiendish devil, whose passions were ani- i mal like, or be taken to the slave mar- I ket, stripped of her European clothes, ; and be bartered, mauled and stared at I by ruthless, loathsome slave dealers, j who would buy her and carry her off I as a slave as a butt for their passions and treacherous temper. See the sensational Universal -Jewel Master-piece i '' Waiting For Dawn.'' at the Lyric Pictures to-night at 5 p.m. I

WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 'BREAK THE NEWS TO MOTHEB,' In transporting Charles K. Harris' famous song, "Break the News to Mother," to the screen, a new mine for movie material has been opened up. Following the conventional adaptations of noveh and stage plays, the music sheet praves quite a novel one. The filming of Harris' song has proven so suecessfal that it is believed that it i will not be long before every new song i will be appended with the footnote of "motion picture rights reserved." After trying the song on the piano, according to this innovation, one may step around to the corner movie and see the plot and action picturised. "Break the News to Mother" is not a war picture aaS has nothing to do with the war, despite tie fact that it was found-,' ed on a song that deals with a dying soldier's message to his mother. The picture is a delightful story of smalltown life and the beautiful love of a mother for her son. "Break the News to Mother." Selzniek Pictures' latest attraction, ca- be seen on Wednesday at the Lyric Pictures. In addition the 2nd chapter of "The Blue FO2" serial, ' sad a. Ballroom comedy, "In again out Ageia," -