LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 292, 1 March 1928, Page 16

LYRIC

BIG PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT “Bitter Apples,’* which will be shown at the Lyric Theatre to-night, is a tmisli moinHrama with vengeance as its theme, and Southern Seas its locale. Monte Blue Ls splendidly cast as the son of a defaulting banker, who. on a trip around the world. Ls pursued by a revengeful lady, who woos and wins him In order to have a more intimate means of tourturing him. Myrna Loy the most exotic and on the screen to-day, is cast as the girl. Paul Ellis plays the part of Stefani Blanco, her equally relentless brother. “The Thirteenth Hour,’* starring Lionel Barrymore, which will also be shown, ranks as one of the most gripping mystery dramas in the realms cf superior detective fiction—a tense, breath-taking narrative with a smashing climax. It tells of a phantom lawbreaker, who always strikes his deadly blow at the same time —the hour after midnight; of a girl secretary whom he holds captive in his luxurious but mysterious home, and of a detective who, when he was assigned to this case and met the girl—found that she was the woman he loved! It is left to a dog to unravel the tangled skein, to fight a thrilling life-and-death struggle on the house-tops with the real criminal —to save his master’s beloved and bring the master crook to justice.