STRAND THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19357, 9 July 1928, Page 7

STRAND THEATRE.

A GOOD PROGRAMME. "The Honour System,"' starring Milton Sills, is featured at the Strand Theatre. Joe Stanton leaves home to take charge of a gold mine on the Mexican border. With him ifl Jack Taylor, who has resisted the wiles of Trixie, a Baloon girl, who, with the aid of her partner, Thieefirgered Louis, hopes to rob the office. Jack is shot during a Mexican raid and irisie turns for sympathy to Stanton, pretending she was giving up hei old life. However, Stanton sees her one night tjoing to the saloon with Louis. He follows them a fight ensues wherein Louis produces a knife. Stanton hits him on the head and lays hiin out The lights go out and Louis is stabbed by an enemy The knife disappears and Stanton is sentenced to life imprisonment, [hiring his trial he is cared for by Sheriff Wells and his daughter Edith. After two years in gaol under a brutal warden, suffering all manner of hardships. Stauton as a test of the honour, system, is allowed out on parole to go to a wireless station to complete his invention, but must return within a stated period. Subsequently he obtains his release, mames Edith Wells, and every Christmas after they give a treat to the prisoners in memory of the Honour Svfltem. '"The Magician," "Blake of Scotland 1 Yard," and comedies complete tho ML