TALKIES AT THE LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1028, 19 July 1930, Page 15

TALKIES AT THE LYRIC

OPENING NEXT WEDNESDAY Auckland’s old favourite theatre, the Lyric, in Upper Symonds Street, will reopen next Wednesday evening as a talkie house, under the direction of Prentico Brothers, Limited. During the past week or two the theatre has been freshly painted and decorated, a new lighting system put in, and the latest type of Western talkie equipment has been installed. When the Lyric was built it was intended to be a vaudeville theatre. This now means that the acoustics are fully considered, and that the reproduction of the talkies will be excellent. In future the policy of the Lyric will be that of presenting big talkie features with specially selected shorts, the programme to be changed every Wednesday and Saturday evenings. The evening performance will begin at 7.45 p.m., and there will be a matinee every Saturday at 2 p.m. The first talkie attraction at the Lyric will be a romantic melodramh entitled “Slightly Scarlet.” Evelyn Brent was never more attractive, more gorgeously gowned

than she is in “Slightly Scarlet.” Nor was the handsome Clive Brook ever more charmingly whimsical, even in “Charming Sinners,” than in this strange melodrama of another charming sinner who looks for high ideal and high

station in her men friends and falls in love with . . . what? That’s one of the big surprises in “Slightly Scarlet.” The story is set in a smart society with sumptuous scenes and delightful people The box plans are now open at Eady, Ltd, and at the Lyric Theatre tobacconist