LYRIC PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 19 February 1923, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT. “RIP VAN WINKLE. “Rip Van Winkle” lias reached the screen at last I The lovable old rascal, perfectly played by Thomas Jefferson, will be the featured attraction next Wednesday at the Lyric Pictures. Ihc picture' is released by Sclznick. And wc want to tell you here and know that it’s just as fine a production as was ever made —out? which will hold and thrill and delight you for every foot of its entire length. Too, a really remarkable cast has been assembled to enact this world-known drama. As has been said the featured player is Thomas Jefferson, son of the famous “Joe“ Jefferson, while the balance of the cast has been drawn from screendom’s favorites. Hendrick Hudson and his ghostly crew,—the little gnomes with their ten-pins and their magic liquor, the Dreamland Queen with her be-wig-ged and bc-ribboned retinue, —they J re all in “Rip Van Winkle,” the newest Hodkinsou production starring Thomas Jefferson which we proudly announce as this week’s attraction. A grand supporting programme includes the “Blue Fox” serial, chapter eight, a Christie comedy “Beaned On the Border.” and a Canadian scenic and Selznick News.

FRIDAY NIGHT, “NORTH OF-THE RIO GRANDE.” Celebrities of the Arizona Southwest, real sure enough cowboys with records to their name, make their initial screen appearances in “North of the Rio Grande,” a Jack Holt-Bebc Daniels Paramount picture, which is to open at the Lyric Pictures on-Friday, next. Red Eagle, an Indian who holds the world's championship for bull-dogging steers, takes a prominent part in the exciting action which involves the two stars in incidents both above arid below the southern border. Red Eagle has in his veins the blood of a notorious Apace chief who sixty years ’ ago is credited with having massacred a hundred Mor- - mens in the very country depicted in ■the photoplay. Harold Lloyd in “Am- ' ong Those Present,” a clever three-reel coioc-dy, and some brilliant supports it--1 company this programme. *.