LYRIC PICTURES

Otaki Mail, 10 December 1923, Page 2

LYRIC PICTURES

TOM MIX IN "ARABIA." NEXT WEDNESDAY. Tom Mix hits a new picture with the alluring title of "Tom Mix in Arabia." which comes to the Otaki theatre next Wednesday. It is the greatest "stunt" production thai this agile Fox star has appeared in so far. Among other reckles- fonts is leaping an automobile oor a fifteen foot embankment into the ,-eu, Mel scaling the front of a castle at a i ate of speed that would give the auditor ot' an accident insurance company :i terrible chill. But his most surprising stunts are performed iiLtbc interior of the castle. which i- Supposed to stand on the brink of Arabia. The Arabian gentlemen in charge of the castle has made up his mind that Tom shall remain a prisoner, and that hard riding -on of the Col.let! West, set out to liberate himself and a young American girl who is being detained by this sume follower of the prophet. A tribe of roving Bedouin* undertake to act -t-, jailers, and Jon, leads them tie- wildest •ort of tt chase through, arouwl and over the castle. Tin.- scampering of a agility of :i trained athlete, i- nhoul 'he onlv way to describe the game of "follow your leader" which Tom forces his guards to play. There i.- a flying leap and somersault from a balcony inro a sunken bath in'the center of the castle floor that took tin- breath of even the Bedouins themselves. A. top-top supporting programme accompanies this fast moving feature, chief of which is a clevei Sunshine com ody, "The Elephant-' Nightmare" and a further chapter of the "Social Buccaneer" -cries." entitled "Black Shadows."