THE STRAND.

NZ Truth, Issue 868, 15 July 1922, Page 2

THE STRAND.

An unusually brilliant drama is "Playthings of Destiny," starring Anita Stewart and Herbert Rawlinson, at the Strand Theatre this week. It is a story of- a girl who married once -for love, and once to forget love — the drama of an Arctic blizzard splendid m its- reality, m which the girl is caught and taken out of iher old life— taken to tropical shores — the drama of a girl who believed ill of her husband and left him— the drama of a girl who stakes all on a new-found friendship. Then old memories creep back. The husband of other days returned. The supporting cast is a brilliant one, and> includes Walter McGrail and William V. Long. The other feature on the ibill is "A Temperamental Wife," starring Connie Talmadge. In this story the inimitable comedienne carries one through five reels of gorgeous matrimonial entanglement, m which wives addicted to jealousy, pretty stenographers and luckless husbands are mixed m kaleidoscopic fashion, andi complications are woven whose disentanglement seems impossible. Yet all is ironed out smoothly m a perfect finish.