ENTERTAINMENTS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 638, 3 June 1921, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

STRAND PICTURES. TO-NIGHT—‘THE BETRAYER.” “The Betrayer,” Beaumont Smith’s latest film production, is a romance of New Zealand and Australia. It is an enthralling story powerfully produced and beautifully photographed. It is certainly the most costly, for, to secure the New Zealand scenes Beaumont Smith brought a company of 12 people and a complete staff to make the New Zealand scones for it. The story deals with a youth and a Maori maid who met 20 years before. These two people laughed and loved and parted, but now the youth comes back a grown-up man. What takes place afterwards. See it. The film is acted amongst , the wonders of New Zealand, the geysers, hot springs clouds of steam rising up .The side of precipices from turbulent waters, but after the third reel the scene changes to Sydney with its sunny beaches, the bush, its city life and fashionable dancing, but in the end the story comes back to New Zealand, “ The Betrayer” will be shown at the Strand Theatre to-night (Friday). TO-MORROW NIGHT. “ THE RIGHT TO HAPPINESS.” One of the most touching scenes in “The Right tc Happiness,” the latest big starring vehicle for Dorothy Phillips, which is to be shown at the Strand Theatre to-morrow (Saturday) night, is the rescue of a baby by a big Russian wolfhound, a handsome, intelligent fellow, too, by the wav. Every movement of the dog in his successful attempt to open the ponderous d -or is plainly shown on the screen. After opening the door the dog leads the child through the blazing rooms to safety. Alien Holubar, the creator of “The Right to Happiness,” a’so employed an appealing dog incident in “The Heart of H’.'imn’ty,” when a Red Cross dog files at the throat of a German soldier and kills him.