STRAND THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19332, 9 June 1928, Page 7

STRAND THEATRE.

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME. The programme to be shown at the Strand Theatre to-day is headed by "The Road to Mandalay." It featuifs Lon Chaney, who plays a weird character, a sea captain degenerated into a sinister fight-scarred ruler of an Oriental underworld hiding in a strange dive on the Singapore waterfront, and secretly adoring an orphaned daughter who never learns her parentage, a pathetic bit of realism injected into the colourful mystery. It is a story that laye bare human hearts, and Chaney rises to some magnificent heights of acting as the father torn between heavenly love and satanic environment. He wears one of the most gruesome disguises in hie picturesque history, but gains sympathy through it—a strange trick of the' dramatist and the actor's own part. Lois Moran appears as the heroine, and Owen Moore as "The Admiral" whose sense of shame brings about a regeneration. , "Rich but Honest,'' starring Nancy Nash! and J. Farrell Macdonald, a comedy, a scenic, and topicals complete the offering.