LYRIC PICTURES

Otaki Mail, 18 May 1923, Page 2

LYRIC PICTURES

CARNIVAL QUEENS AND COMEDY DRAMA TO-NIGHT. The almost-city of Wingfield. Slumbering restfully in the hand:-, of its folk whose taste for the lotus had led them into a groove of velvet ea.-e. Then the richest girl in town awoke t.j Wingfield's needs and possibilities; caught a glimpse of dormant power in it.- Jish'.'inian lawyer; combined both and put her town on the map. Quite naturally vViugfield at tii.-t resented the disturbance, more especially those r. ho thought they could juggle with politics as in th* bygone day.-. But regeneration had come with ;. vengeance and in a sequence ot tun, thrill, and adventure tic undesirables wer« cleaned up and Winglield ru-born. lon. Meighun is plea-ingly supported by Lois Wil«ou in :i picture of incident and interest t*j be s.-reened at the Lyric pictures to-night a? 15 [...in. Additional interesting items i: elude a photograph of each of the Carnival queen.-, also a full supporting i rograwme of comedies, seriui and gazette. TO-MORROW (SATI.'KDAY) At 8 o'clock. "DISRAELI." • Disraeli," which come- to the Lyric picture- to-morrow 'Saturday; at 6 p.. -.:., represents the perfect motion pictu:<; for those who have become tirnd of .ow.- stories, of melodrama, the shadlo\ frivolity of some cluab'es of Jiim, it is ;.., refreshing a.- an oasis in the dcsei . It is. a breath of. th* Victorian ej: . quaint, with old-time cus'tom and '.-if at, ami yet it is much more fho« that, for it recalls a glorious tradition

an I the spirit of the nation. Some nil rht b'j led to think'by the title, that, it -j a dry historical episode, a ujerfc sli'.e from a school history book, but no idea was ever wider of the mark. It literally throbs with romance, and if feU'-Ii a term may be used "heart-inter-esi." Mr Oeorge Arjif-s Jives the part ol Disraeli, and his performance will !oj g be reiaemb(#rfed. The s.tory ie entwined round the purchase ot the *u<*s Canal and it shows the fight that most great >M]| Ka have had agains.t the piir-headedness of the British people; so..;e have failed, but Disraeli won, to hi* own honour and to England's gloryStately old houses, with long -loping lawns and gardens, item but costly, in-

teriors are there in reality. The che.r-a'-rer.- might have leapt into life freia the pages of some old picture book. In d.-tail the picture has; never been outdone. The whole production should go straight to the hearts of Otaki a*di-

e::ce«. Some splendid supports include a Mermaid comedy, starring Lkyd H.-.rnilton, "The Karnmaker." and the Pathe New-, and prices remain as usual, ~o intending patrons are advisod to book their v-arr, by ringing 125.