ENTERTAINMENTS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 615, 11 March 1921, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ODDFELLOWS’ HALL. WEDNESDAY, MARCH IC. “ The Forbidden Path/’ a big William Fox super-production, featuring that popular actress, Theda Bara, in leading role, will be shown at the Oddfellows’ Hall on Wednesday, March 16. Excellent supports complete a first .rate programme. “THE RED LANTERN” FRIDAY, MARCH IS. The screen’s greatest artist, Nazimova, in the living masterpiece of dramatic art in the triumph of her career, “The Red Lantern.” A story of the purple forbidden city, dazzling in its grandeur, will delight Popular Picture patrons at the Oddfellows’ Hall next Friday night, March 13. The mass of fact and fancy contained in this wondrous production, built upon Edith Wherry’s famous novel, should not be missed by anyone. “ The Red Lantern ” is a play of mysterious China that gives Nazimova a dual role that reveals the tremendous range of her rare artistry. It is a play of deep undercurrents, telling the story of an Euasian girl, the daughter of two races, who feels the eternal conflict of the alien bloods forever raging within her soul. It is a theme to wake the pulses of the heart and fill fhe imaginations with the irresistible lure of secret Asia, with a splendour and a* mystery that surpasses anything heretofore attempted. A drama that pictures the struggle of the human soul of an unhappy daughter of the east and west, an outcast of both races, working out her astonishing destiny. Eighteen huge sets, spread over six acr,es of ground, were built for the exterior scenes of this great super-production and 1500 persons take their part in the making, headed by a cast of national fame and distinction, all of them headed by Nazimova. “The Red Lantern” is the best special picture so faF produced by Metro Corporation. Don’t miss it THE STRAND. TO-NIGHT (FRIDAY). . “ THE DEVIL’S TRAIL.” People who talk about dens of vice in New Zealand have not the faintest idea of the limits of degredation reached by humanity in other parts of the world. In the New World film drama “The Devil’s Trail,” the thread of the story enmeshes the pretty daughter of a sergeant of the Royal Canadian North-west Mounted Police, who returns to his lonely post in the out-backs to find his wife murdered and his girl abducted by a renegrade who runs one of the infamous “honkv tonks,” or .dance halls, that used to traffic in human souls before law and order came to the wilderness. It is a fascinating glimpse of the darker side of life in the Canadian Northwest, and Betty Compson, supported by George Larkin and a capable cast, give an excellent delineation of their roles.

SATURDAY NIGHT. “ THE GILDED DREAM. Leona Willard in “The Glided Dream ” is a pretty girl employed in a millinery shop in a small town. She has dreams of going to New York and marrying a wealthy man. An inheritance of five thousand dollars enables her to go to the city, where she calls on Mrs Geraldine de Forrest, a former friend of her mother’s. Ms de Forrest belongs to a fast social set, but feels that she is losing her personal charms to an extent, and is glad to take up Leona as a menas of furthering her own ambitions. To describe what eventually took place would rob this picture of all interest centred in it.