LYRIC PICTURES

Otaki Mail, 2 July 1923, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES

WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

( RUDOLPH VALENTINO IN "\ j r '' STOLEN MOMENTS." ''« The heroine'of" "Stolen -Morneats' is infatuated by a' South: Anicricaii novelist and goes to .his jhome Withoal letting her .guardian ;know. 'Whilf there she writes an avowal of lbve''in a book given to her by! : the novelist, and sign* her name to ;it. The' girl lives with her guardian and his rfiorh--1 or. He has long loved her but has aot spoken. Finding that he must return to South America, the novelist " asks the girl to go with him: She consent* and steals away from a party to join him. When she gets to his'house she shows him her mother's wedding ring and asks permission to use it when they are married. He laughs at her suggestion of a wedding and she lcavei him in disgust. Some time later she becomes tho wife of her guardian. The novelist returns and so works on her fears that she determines to get the book at any cost. The novelist tcils her she must come to his house for it. She goes, the man attacks her aud she strikcs"him down with a knife, she picks up from tho table. Securi»g the book she hurries home. Her husband is the prosecuting attorney and iha learns that the novelist is dead. It 1 turns out, hpwever, that she did.ne-t kill him. That was done by the brother of a country woman of the nov«-

: list's whom he had wronged. The bioI thcr entered the house just as the iiov»- : list "was reviving from the effects of the blow given him by the prosecuting attorney's wife, and killed him. Soma ' big supporting films accompany thi* 1 programme. I MONDAY NEXT. "THE QTJEEN OF SHEBA." I "Queen of Shcba," the William Fox super-special which created a tremendous sonsation'during its run at a. prominent Broadway, New York, theatre, will come to the Lyric pictures next Monday for one night only. Metropolitan critics described the-piettiro u* a marvel of beauty, color and dramatic force, and as a spectacle unsurpassed in magnificence. All wrote with wondering approval of the pageantry attending the arrival of the Queen, of Sheba at King Solomon's court, and declared the chariot race cheered by 5,000 spectators to be one of the most thrilling scenes ever shown on the screen. The role of the Queen of Sheba is played by Betty Blythe; Fritz Lieber, noted Shakespearian actor, in King Solomon; Claire de Lore/ is Queen Amarath, wife of Solomon; and Nell Craig is seen in the role of tlio Princes j Vashti, Sheba 'si opponent in the chariot | race. From all reports, based upon th» New Yprk run, "Queen pf Sheba" promises to b,e the screen sensation of the season,