LYRIC PICTURES

Otaki Mail, 13 June 1923, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES

TO-NIGHT. "MAN FROM HELL'S RIVER." The vivid, colorful, turbulent life of the Canadian Northwest forms the background for the stirring action of •'Man From Hell's River," coming to the Lyric pictures to-night. It is the work of James Oliver Curwood who has written many successes for the screen. Irving Cummings. who directed the feature, also plays the leading role—that of an officer in the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. The story is big in its appeal. The serial photoplay lovers of this town will hear with de light that the much talked of chapter picture "Hidden Dangers" will commence its run to-night and for 15 consecutive weeks thereafter. This already

famous serial was just recently completed and because of the sensational scientific story upon which it is based, it has received wide discussion all over the country. It is the story of a modern Dr. Jekvll and Mr Hyde with .Toe Ryan

and .Jean Paige as stars. It was produced by Yilagraph and an added interest is lent to it because of its being the first photoplay in which Ryan and Paige have appeared as stars. A Ben Turpin comedy, a ['a the review, and Gauruont graphic complete the programme. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. "ONE EXCITING NIGHT." For his latest motion picture sensation, "One Exciting-Night," which has been announced as the feature attraction for Thursday and Friday at the Lyric pictures, D. W. Griffith, mastermaker of photoplays, has taken for his cue the increasing popularity of the last two or three years of the stage melodrama and lias produced a mystery picture par excellence. There is as sweet and dainty a love story as ever was filmed; there is mystery galore — mystery till the audience sits breathless —and then comes relief from the suspense in the form of the most delightful laughter-provoking comedy from Romeo Washington, a wonderful blackface character who finds himself torn between love of a dusky maid and fear of the peerir- *. v es and stealthy figures that creep in and out are seen everywhere. But there is entertainment —a full two hours of it. There is a missing and much sought satchel containing half a million dollars in bills that lies for a time submerged in a flour barrel in the kitchen while the amorous Romeo makes love to the choice of his heart. And all the time there is uppermost in the minds of everybody the q uery —"Who murdered Johnson?" Of course no Griffith picture would betruly Grifiithesque without its great climax scene. And "One Exciting Night" has it. This time it is a storm. that type of mid-summer thunderstorm with which everybody everywhere is familiar—a torrential downpour of rain : coupled with hurricane winds, low- : sweeping clouds, split asunder every ( second by bolts of tree shredding lightning. Trees are uprooted and' dung i about like pTatclies before an airplane | propeller: houses are unroofed, deniolj ished, and crumble beneath the tc-m- ---' pest. And in the midst of it the Boy and ' Girl find their love come- true-: , the villain is captured; the mystery of | the half million dollars cleared.