LYRIC PICTURES.
TO-NIGHT.
•' SHELTERED DAUGHTERS.'' Is it lair to a gill to protect her too much from the world? Anxious parents have long found this a perplexing problem to solve, and now motion pictures have taken up the question. For it is the story of a too carefully reared and guarded little girl that is unfolded in "Sheltered Daughters." the Realart picture with beautiful Justine Johnstone, that will bo shown at the Lyric Pictures to-night. Additional films include a line comedy from the Sennett -tudio< entitled "Salome and Shenandoah," and is said to contain a laugh in every foot. Tin- Universal serial "Peril- of the Yukon" advances to chapter three and is packed full of thrills. The Paramount news and Travclogu jmplete a tip-top programme. TO-MORROW 'SATURDAY ) "SONNY." Richard Barthelmess. stai ot "Tol'tilile David," pr-moum-ed a one of the best three |uctures of the -i'-asoe. rill be seen again at the Lyric Pictmes to-morrow (Saiurtjay) in his latest First National offering ••Sonny." an adaption of tie- stage play by "ere,.- If.e bart. The story centres round about the complications ensuing when .foe Peters, a billiard room keeper, returning from the war t<. find himself lak.-n for Sonny Crosby, who was killed in France. Sonny happened to be the last worn 1 in money and blue blood. doe
wouldn't have taken the job foi anything, but there wa- Sonny's blind mother looking for the return of her boy. Simple characterisation and intensely human appeal are the outstanding feature of a story ol unusual dramatic interest. Unusual complications develop and the seemingly easy task of making a lonely soul happy becomes fraught with obstacle and danger. How the heart-rending situation i- solved in a month that brings happiness all round is tohl in 11 manui-r of simple charm in
which the strongest appeal i-. mad- by the unaffected delineation gl»«n by Barthelmess to tin? leading character. A good supporting programme accompanies this fine picture and prices remain as usual.
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Otaki Mail, 16 March 1923, Page 2
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