LYRIC PICTURES

Otaki Mail, 9 May 1923, Page 2

LYRIC PICTURES

TO-NIGHT. "ROADS OF DESTINY." Do you feel that you are master o your fate, or is there no escape fron Destiny.' See Pauline Frederick in ho. amazing dramatic triumph "Roads oj Destiny.'" tit the Lytic- pictures to night. This play stresses (). Henry': doctrine that there is no escape fron fate, and consists of three stories fol lowing upon the main theme, showiiif that a woman's heart impulses will lead her to the same fate whatevet road she takes. Go east...go west...

north or south, and meet the thing fron which you ran. The hand of fate hold: the card- stacked against you. Addi tional pictures include a clever Chris tie comedy "Hocus Poeus," starring Bobby Vernon, a Patke Review and the Pathe Gazette. FRIDAY NIGHT. "IS MATRIMONY A FAILURE?" The question isn't answered in the new Paramount special comedy of that name which comes to the Lyric picture.* ne.vt Friday, but it is discussed in some of the most delightful laugh-provoking episodes that have been see,, for some time. The fun is wholesome and the story -hows just what would happen if. through some legal tec),ideality, about fifty per cent, of the married men of a town suddenly discovered that after having lived half of their Ihes as husbands, they are not really married at all. and are as fi(;<> :< - the lords of the

air. The successful stage play. "The Open Door." by Oscar Bluutcntbal and Gustav Kadelburg, was the basis for the picture, which was filmed under the direction of .Tame;. Cruze. T. iior ' Barnes head.- the excellent east, which includes some of the- most prominent ■present day screen favorites such as Lila Lee. Lois Wilson. Walter Hiers, Zasu Pitts. Arthur Hoyt, Lillian Leighton. Tully Marshall. Adolphe Menjou and Sylvia Ashton. A big supporting programme accompanies this special feature and includes a Senuett comedy. "The Gingham Girl," a Burton Holmes' Travelogue, a Paramount Magazine, are] chapter eleven of the "Peril- of the Yukon" serial.