ENTERTAINMENTS.
STRAND PICTURES. TO-NIGHT (TUESDAY). “The Busher,” featuring Charles Ray, is a rattling story of the great American national sport, baseball, where men glory in fame one moment and are engulfed by the bitter condemnation of friends, even sweethearts, the next. -Also eighth episode of “The Lightning Raider” Smashes of Evil) and a good Mack Sennett comedy. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3. NORMA TALMADGE IN “THE ISLE OF CONQUEST.” “The Isle of Conquest” is a fascinating and fast-moving drama of love, hate, romance and adventure, based upon a girl’s enforced marriage to a brutal husband. A thrilling shipwreck at sea isolates her with a lone companion—a stoker from her husband’s yacht—upon a tropical island, and here she learns love and happiness. Her husband’s sudden reappearance, after she has given her heart to • another, weaves a web of complications that will hold and thrill throughout. It is a big story with a big star, done in a big way. Also “Vanishing Dagger.” FRIDAY, FEBRUARY) 4. JUNE ELVIDGE IN “COAX ME.” June Elvidge, the charming and talented World star will come to the screen in her newest photo-play entitled “Coax Me.” Miss Elvidge has had many delightful subjects since she advent upon the silver sheet, but it is doubtful if she has ever appeared in a play which carried such a fragrant love theme as “Coax Me.”
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 604, 1 February 1921, Page 5
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223ENTERTAINMENTS. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 604, 1 February 1921, Page 5
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