STRAND THEATRE.
'"The Heart of a Follies Girl," now being screened at tho Strand Theatre, shows Billio Dove in her latest role. In addition to the colourful atmosphere of the Follies, tho picture has a really wonderful dramatic plot. The story deals with the love of a Follies Elrl for tho private secretary of a wealthy admirer, and the subsequent sacrifices she makes for the impoverished and not quite 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 Selwyqne, and other well-known screen artists head a cast that also includes fifty; beautiful dancing girls. The second ■ feature, "For Alimony Only," features Leatrlco Joy in a picture with an unsual plot. Narcissa Williams, an "allmonlac," divorces her husband and secretly marries another man, whom sho supports upon tho money which tho Court orders her first husband to pay her. The latter marries again, but falls into arrears with Ills 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, sho runs away to a notorious roadhouse with Narclssa's second husband. Tho tangle ts finally straightened out when the police raid the place.., It is disclosed that the "allmoniac" has married again, and tlio maintenance is then cut off. Clivo Brook takes tho part of the hero in this amusing farce.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 7
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262STRAND THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 7
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