STRAND THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 5

STRAND THEATRE.

The proErntnmo at tlio Strand Theatre is provlnjj popular. Dolores Costr.Ho aud n Blronß wist <iro seen In "A, Million • Bid," and Jane Novak and Mghlnlnc; tlio iloc arc starred In "1-iiro or tlic Wllil." "A Million Bid" Is Intensely dramatic, blvliib Miss Costello n superb emotional rolo. Malcolm • M'GrcKor, Warner Oland, and Betty Blytho ably support Dolores Costello. ,lano Novak Is seen In ono of her typical characterisations In "Luro or the Wild." Tlio plot deals with a inlsundcrstandlns that drives a mnn and his child to tlio Canadian back woods. A splendid seloctlon or supporting pictures is also- on this programme. The first big featuro tmdor Ilio new policy of tho Strand Theatro will bo "Sorrell and Kon." which commences noxt Friday. The picture Is easily ranked among tho year's flvo best pictures. H. It. Warner, Anna Q. Nllsson, Alice Joyce, Nils Aslhcr, Carmcl Myers, Mary Solan. Norman Trevor, Betsy Ann Htslo arc some of (ho artists who share honours In tho plctnrLsntloii of Wa'rwlck Dcopluk's novel. "Sorrell and Him" is n story of father Invo kikl son devotion, a story of HhbUiiil tUirlntr the post-war period, when heroes ciimn lionic, only to find their peacetime Jobs appropriated by slay-at-hfimes. and faring the necessity of | working In tlio most, menial tasks to support i themselves and their families. ."Captain Stephen Sorrell" was ono of these heroes; not | only: was his job cono when he returned to Guidon after tbo Armistice, but, his wlfo mis faithless. Left wllh a yomiE son as his wlfo deserts him for a wealthy profiteer. "Sorrell" tho iiid and givo him a chanco In life. ,