QUEEN'S THEATRE

Press, Volume L, Issue 14916, 14 March 1914, Page 7

QUEEN'S THEATRE

The new proCTammo at the Queen's Theatre yesterday contained a large selection of up-to-date films. "The Outlaw," a Vitagraph drama, was one of the, star pictures shown. The story told was an intensely dramatic ono. It concerned the career of a notorious outlaw and horse-thief, whose depredations so alarmed the inhabitants of the county where he operated that a reward was offerod for his capture dead or alive. To the outlaw's houso came one day a young prospector who had been driven from his camp for cheating at cards. The prospector was wandering in the mountains desolate and homeless, when he was discovered by the outlaw and given shelter and refuge. He returned these attentions with a base betrayal. Learning that his host was the outlaw for whose capture a big reward was offered, he went off to the sheriff, announced his information, and headed a posse back to the camp. The outlaw and his daughter living with him put up a big resistance, but the force against them was too 6trong, and they were compelled to surrender. The girl was released and returned to the hut ;>, leaving her father in custody. At the hut she collected her father's gun, also seme ammunition, and making a rapid detour across country, came up to tho procession of police and the traitorous prospector bringing up the rear. Taking careful aim she fired, and the man dropped dead. "The Sterner Sox" was another drama. An elderly hut wealthy man marries a young wife, thr girl being in financial difficulties at the time. Shortly after the marriage the old man's son comes home, and his stopmother makes altogether undue advances to him. These he repulses, and the wife, out of revenge, der-ounces him to her husband. A stormy scene follows, but the young woman finally breaks down, and confesses her deception. 'The Pride of the Battery" was a charming little. story in which a small child, the pet of a Confederate battery, goes over to the enemy to procure a supply of tobacco. This she readily gets, and makes herself a firm friend with the men of the opposing force. She returns to her own "friends, and a battle takes place the next day, but the battery to which the child is attached passes through the fight, unmolested, the soldiers fearing that she would be hurt if they attacked the battery. Good supporting films were:—"A Double Wedding". (comic), "Course of the Doubs" (scenic), "Wiffies and the Merry Widow" (comedy), and the latest "English Gazette." For the matinee this afternoon two special films, "Tho Flower of the Ranch" and "A Girl of the West," will bo screened, and the ordinary programme will bo repeated at the other session*.