LYRIC PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 21 December 1923, Page 2

LYRIC PICTURES.

MARY MILES MUSTER TO-NIGHT. Mary Miles Mintcr, starring in "Her Winning Way," which is the feature picture to-night at the Lyric pictures, plays the role of a clever "and energetic newspaper girl. who litis plenty of initiative when it comes to getting interviews with shy authors who do not wish to be interviewed. She embodies the modern spirit perfectly. She is a calm but determined little feminine " go-getl.er." The day of the lackadaisical, die-awav heroine" who sat around and ' twiddled her thumbs while waiting for someone to cull up, has passed away, and the fainting insipid heroine is a.- obsolete as bustles am! hair-cloth furniture. A new Charles Murray comedy "Faint Hear!," the Burton Holmes travelogue and I'aramoun: news, complete u very fine programme. TO-MOKEOW (SATURDAY) AT 230 AND 8. CONSTANCE TALMADGE IN "EAST IS WEST." it would seem that there is no end to the capabilities of Connie Talwadge. She has appeared in everything from comedy drama to plays of a more serious order, and now she appears before us in the garb of the Celestial "East i.. West" taken fro,,, the famous play of the same nam,, offers Connie the most wonderful opportunity of her whole career, she is seen first as a beautiful Chinese girl, who is placed on the "love boat" for auction and later as a daughter of San Franciscoc Chinatown. Her way is frought with all sorts of dangers and her white hero m braving the dangers of Chinatown in her cause establishes himself as a Borneo of the fust order. On the same programme is the final chapter of "Around the World in IS Davs" a nd contains more thrills than e'ver. A First National comedy entitled "Counter Plot" and the Pathe news complete a very fine programme. NEXT MONDAY (XMAS EVE). HOOT GIBSON IN "THE LONE HAND." "Hoot" Gibson comes to the screen of the Lyric pictures next Mondav. in his latest Universal starring vehicle, "The Lone Hand," directed by Reaves Eason. Scenes are laid in the wide spaccs_ of Wyoming, giving the hard galloping Gibson ample acreage in which to cut his world famous equestrain capers. Marjoric Daw has the leading feminine role. I