STRAND THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 5

STRAND THEATRE.

■•Tlio Heart of a Follies Girl," to be screened at the Strand Theatre to-niglit, shows Billie Dove In her latest role. In addition to the colourful utmosphero of tlio Follies, the picture has a really wonderful dramatic plot. The story deals with Hie love of a Follies girl for tlio private secretary- of a wealthy admirer, and the subsequent sacrifices shu makes for the .Impoverished and uot unite worthy hero. Her nobility of conduct eventually brings out the real man in her lover, and a logical happy ending results. 'Larry Kent is tho private secretary, and Lowell Sherman the wealthy admirer. Mildred Harris, Clarissa Sclwynne, and other well-known screen artists head a cast that also includes fifty beautiful dancing girls. Tho second feature, "For Alimony Only," features Leatrice Joy in a picture with an unsual plot. Narcissa Williams, an "alimoniac," divorces her husband and secretly marries another man, whom she supports upon the money which tho Court orders her first husband to pay her. Tho latter marries again, but falls into arrears with his payments, and he is threatened with imprisonment His wife, Mary (played.by Leatrice Joy), goes to work to assist him, but sees her husband in the arms of the other woman. Too unhappy to care about anything, she runs away to a notorious roadhouse with Narcissa's second husband. The tangle Is finally straightened out when the police raid tho place. It Is disclosed that the "alimoniac" has married again, and the maintenance is then cut off. Clive Brook takes the part of the hero In this amusing farce.