LYRIC PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 9 March 1923, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT. "ACROSS THE CONTINENT.” The new Paramount photoplay "Auross the Continent,’’ starring the late Wallace Reid, is a swift moving story, full of humour and thrills. The eoast-to-coast race had begun! Powerful cars roared through town and village; Los Angeles and the unbroken record of the Fontaine car., their goal. Sadly contrasted to the thundering monsters far ahead came the Dent. ‘Tin-Lizzie,’ pounding its way, hours behind. Grim faced Jimmy Dent steered hopelessly, j Then came the cloudburst! The elev-1 enth hour before hope Of the Dent. See the sturdy little car gradually close up, . she passes one —two — Jimmy drove out of Kansas City last, he -.sped into Albuquerque, fourth. On she flow and at the last, lap Jimmy again took the wheel. Outside Mojave, at the Hewhall Tunnel, the Fontaine agents played their last card. A millionth chance remained; with their lives in his hands Jimmy took it aud made it, to a fraction of a second. A thuiliiug. vivid climax to a series of events that arc unsurpassed in punch, humaneness aud exquisite comedy. Look at the cast! What more can be said? The support-: ing programme contains many varied i subjects and includes the final chapter | of "The Terror Trail" serial, chapter] two of the "Perils of the Yukon,’’ a Bennett comedy, and latest news reels. TO-MORROW (SATURDAY) 1 • MADAME X." She preferred to be nameless. After y p :lTs of' degradation she wanted to save her son from knowing her past. She maje a mother<s supreme sacrifice. This pitiful wreck of what once had been a beautiful woman, still held in her trembling breast a consuming love i f or the son she had been forbidden to see. And so she rose, armed with su- : pernatural strength, and defended him. c Love was the only motive that made her i a criminal. Love. . . .and love only. : He did not know, as he stood there i pleading for her life, that this pitiful broken creature was his mother "Madt amo X.”■ The screen’s most dramatic - achievement starring Pauline Fredor e ick. The eternal triangle with a dif ferent angle, the queerest of all angle; r —father —mother —son. A throbbin; e drama of life tvith all its high light s and shadows. Jimmy Aubery in a Vita r- graph two-reel coigedy, "A Ckarmei ? Life," th<3 Puthe news eomplet