LYRIC PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 8 October 1923, Page 2

LYRIC PICTURES.

•' FASCINATION' ’ TO-NIGHT. “ Fascination, ” the latesl Mae Murray production, which is pres'eated by Robert Leonard, reveals the famous -tar in the most ambitious of her roles. No other eharacter that she has portrayed requires as much di/lieult emotional acting as “Fascination.” which is screening at the —yric pictures tonight. Altogether it marks a new step in her career, a step in the direction of tensely emotional drama. “Fascination” is by Edmund Doubling, who wrote Miss Murray's sensational successful ‘‘Peacock Alley” from a story of Ouida Bergere. Miss M urrav appears as Dolores De Lisa, the daughter of a Spanish father and an American mother. She combines Latin lire with T ankee pep. The east includes Helen Ware. Creighton Hale. Robert W. Frazer. Courtenay Foote, Charles Lane, A incent Coleman. Emily Fitzroy and Iraneis Puglia. As a curtain raiser to “Fascination,” Be be Daniels will be presented : n a new Paramount offering, “ tihe Coulu’t Help It” which is adapted ironi the novel, “The Bishop's Carriage.”

WILLIAM FAENUM. NEXT WEDNESDAY. Perjury. a William Fox superspecial which was the talk of New York, while running at a prominent Broadway theatre, will eofne to the Lyric pictures next Wednesday. It presents William Faraurn in a role similar in several essential respects to that of .Jean Yaljean in Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” in which this faro ou p emotional screen star made a tremendous hit. New York reviewers and theatre-goers, during the run of “Perjury” in the metropolis declared that Willia rn Farnurn surpassed ail former efforts in the expression of human emotion. They predicted that the gripping photodraraa wili establish itself permanently as one of the classics of the screen, .-mother round of the “Leather Pushers” will be screened also.