ENTERTAINMENTS.
STRAND THEATRE. TUESDAY NIGHT. In Gertrude Atherton’s “Out of the Storm,” an eminent author's production, which will be shown at the Strand Thea ( tae to-night, Barbara Castleton appears in four distinct characterisations. In the early part of the story, she is seen as a ragged half-starved factory girl without employment and contemplating suicide. She next plays as a dance hall singer in a rough cafe on jthe Barbary coast in San Francisco, where her wonderful voice attracts the attention of a wealthy visitor. She graduates from these “delicate” roles into the luxurious lot of the pet of this wealthy rake, who sends hen to a profesor to have her voice cultivated, finally emerging in full regeneration as a famous singer, and the wife of an English nobleman. The supporting items are excellent. THURSDAY. One of the best attractions of a decade at the Strand Theatre is “Dinty,” in which Wesley Barry, the freckle-faced boy actor is seen in the first starring vehicle of his vouthful career. It is the tale of a fighting newsboy, who has an old Irish mother to support. Romance, pathos, humour and /thrilling adventure makes this one of the most extraordinary cinema productions ever filmed. It is a motion picture triumph cannot fail to flehVht everv m an, woman and child who see it.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 705, 7 February 1922, Page 4
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219ENTERTAINMENTS. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 705, 7 February 1922, Page 4
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