STRAND THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 7

STRAND THEATRE.

"Hindle Wakes," a British film from Stanley Houghton's famous play of Lancashire life, is one of the two attractions at the Strand .Theatre. It features Norman M'Klnnel, Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Peggy Carlisle,, and Gladys Jennings. "Hindle Wakes" is a fine drama played on the human note against a background of industrial lifo and in the novel atmosphere of the "wakes" week. Hindle —a forest of factory chimney-stacks above dreary desolate streets. Imagine Blackpool's Tower Ballroom with a dancing crowd of G3<l7 —tho biggest yet screened. Two young girls, mill-workers both of them, let loose for a whole week among the pleasures of gay Blackpool. The second feature is another British (Stbll) production, "The Golden Butterfly," in which Lila Damita and Jack Trevor play the principal parts. Lila Damita made her first acquaintance with films as: a dancer in a French picturo at' the age of six. Later, she did so well that she was given her big chance in "Tho Golden Butterfly," which is from tho novel by V. G. Wodehouse. A picturo of the stage, it deals with a young girl who won success as a dancer at the cost of her lover. She meets with an accident which cuts slinrt her career, and how she finds her way 1 back to love is charmingly told.