ENTERTAINMENTS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 657, 9 August 1921, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

STRAND PICTURES. TO-NIGHT (TUESDAY). “THE MISLEADING LADY.” A wonderful picture, wonderfully acted, was the verdict of the playgoers who witnessed “The MisleadingLady” at its first showing. It will be on view at the Strand Theatre tonight. The reason was —Bert Lytell. This clever actor, who has won a foremost place in screendom through his: skillful and brilliant work in portraying roles as different from each other as day and night, surprised all his admirers in this picture by his delineation of the part of a womanhater stung to anger at finding himself victimised by a girl. The play in itself has thrills aplenty, dramatic moments when the audience sits tense, waiting for the next moment to straighten out things, and delicious humour that relieves the strain and sends everybody rocking with mirth. Bert Lytell plays the dashing role of Jack Craigen, an engineer lately returned from Africa to New York, who proposes to a stage-struck society girl, Helen Steele, only to find that it was a frame-up and that she made him propose only to prove to her millionaire friend that she has talent enough to have the leading, woman’s role in his “little theatre.” Craigen, ar.gercd, abducts her to his hunting lodge, and there alternately tomes her wild spirit and wooes her, until she learns to love him. The picture is o. Metro special, adapted from the stage success by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey.