LYRIC PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 2 November 1923, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES.

“CLARENCE” TO-NIGHT. Said to be a laugh-maker that is distinctly worth while, “Clarence.” a new Paramount comedy featuring Wallace Reir, Agnes Ayres and May McAvoy, will be sliowu at the Lyric pictures to-night. The story deals with the troubles of an American family, the members, of which are constantly at «££- - and who are recon?!fSu' through the painstaking and humorous efforts of a rookie. The love element is strong and every scen'e has a laugh of its own. Supporting items include a Sennett comedy and Paramount news.

TO-MORROW (SATURDAY) AT 2.30 AND 8, “THE RULING PASSION.” 11l “The Ruling Passion,” George Arliss at the Lyric pictures, to-morrow, Saturday, at 2.30 and 8, pictulises a multi-millionaire automobile manufucturer who has worked himself to the verge of a nervous breakdown and is ordered by his physician to retire to his country estate and seek relaxation. This lie does to the delight of his wife and daughter, but he soons finds that he has worked too long and too han't even to find rest for his tired nerves in enforced idleness, so he secretly goes into a small time garage business with an almost penniless young man, who at once falls in love with the retired manufacturer’s daughter. “The Ruling Passion” abounds in quaint hum-, our arid subtle comedy, with a thread of what might be called health nh'dorophv running through it, but without anv definite attempt to point a moral or'touch a lesson: Doris Neni yon gives a charming portrayal of the I daughter of the millionaire. A Harold | Lloyd comedy, “Get. Out and Got Under” and a further chapter of “Around the World in Eighteen Days together with the latest news reelsand the Lyric orchestra provide? a perfectly balanced, programme.