LYRIC PICTURES

Otaki Mail, 1 June 1923, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES

vVlvr. S. HART AND HAROLD LLOYD TO-NIGHT. Wm. s. Hart has a strenuous role in his latest Paramount picture from his own pen, entitled, “White Oak,” at the Lyric Pictures to-night. He tackles a band of Indians single-handed and foils three bad men. The plot is stmiig, and tiie scenes cdourfuk That period is the early fifties, and the task fit getting the correct atmosphere has been veil carried cut. One player, who does not appear in the cast, performs in a notable manner. He is a line dog, and shows inure than passing intelligence. Bringing a message from tin..' be lea gu red train, he assits Oak Miller t Wm. S. Ilart) to escape prison, and guides him to the attack. Harold Lloyd lias done it again. “I Do,” a quick, clean comedy which sparkles with genuinely humorous incidents. will also be screened to-night. Married life is treated from an entirely new angle. The efforts of the young married couple to mind their two small nephews provide some of the funniest situations ever seen on the scree*. Mildred Davis, who plays opposite Harold Lloyd, is a capable actress, amt possesses a winsome personality. Additional films include the l«urteentli Chapter of the “Perils of the Yukon.” and « Burton Holmes’ Travelogue.

“THE THREE MUSKETEERS.” TO-MOKROW (SAT CR DAY) To every reader of “The Three Mus-, lie tears ’ ’ memory brings a panorama of distinctly visualised personalities, everyone vital and breathing Louis XIII. of France, The King; his Queen. Anne of Austria; The Cardinal; the henchman. Rochefort; Buckingham, the English Courtier and Statesman; Milady do Winters, the deadly and fascinating adventuress; de Treville, blunt and masterful, captain of the King's Musketeers, the gentle Constance, d’Artagnan’s sweetheart; the swaggering adventure-mine t rio whose slogan j was “One for all, and all for one’ Attics, f’ortlios and Araniis. And the outstanding character wnu bewitches the imagination—d’Artagnan. All these characters are to play their allotted parts on the screen with realism and conviction. >.-vcn as portrayed by Dumas in his immortal classic, and j same minute attention to detail. “The Three Musketeers. ” which will be presented a-r the Lyric Pictures to-mor-row night is described by the Sydney “News” as “a remarkable faithful romance, produced with a wealth of detail and magnificence that is overpowering.” The story sweeps along with a bewildering host of angles, for Alexandre Dumas gave good measure. Humour, pathos, surprises, twists, quick clashes at arms, and plot, plot, plot, all follow in kaleidoscopic sequence, and as The Auckland “Star” says: “It is more than doubtful if the screen will ever see a picture that will give greater satisfaction than this one.-’ The box plan is open at Lowry s.