AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 19, 5 January 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. The new drama, “After Many Years,” • which was screened at Bernard’s last night, proved to bo ono of the very best. It has a grand story. The old couple are celebrating their golden wedding, and the sight of a war medal leads the veteran to tell his' little grandchild and her parents how he won the medal and ibis bride. He‘did not, , like the crippled warrior, “shoulder his crutch and' show ! how fields were won,” but we are taken back those fifty years and’Sbe him : £ftl' ; Palermo,, creeping throUgh tMis 1 enemy’s'‘lines, snatching a horse' 4 rdni, their midst; ; ahd; galloping ‘ hotly pursued for the .rtiaih army 1 , 1 . - Wounded, he* sfebks 1 shelter at a pfea^ant’ s'■ cottage, 1 "having tricked his ‘pursuers. The “good man” and his pretty daughter dress his wound, and give him food. Then bade •‘comes the enemy, and the peasants, hiding the 1 stranger behind a bundle of faggots, open the door to them. Everything goes well, till the captain notices blood on the girl’s sleeve, but’,, sihe,, putting, her hands bc-iaind her backj Igughing- meanwhile, makes ■ a gash in. ,her. .hand,; with. a sharp knife, ; and the,.situation. .. The scene changes, . and„ it is the battlefield r now.. Opr .hero's army., i?,, victorious. It is hardly necessary to . finish .’.the tale, except .to say that the acting is quite .as good as the story, the battle being the finest one we ever remember to have seen on the screen. “The Buccaneers” revives the days of the immortal Captain Kidd, and his merry, men. Very bloodthirsty pirates they are. and one is not sorry to see them all, excepting the two prisoners and the mate who befriended them, go to the bottom. Another drama, of exceptional interest, is “The Buried Past.” It deals with two exconvicts, and, tells how one of them afterwards accepted nomination as mayor of the city. It is a problem of real life, and as such commands one’s attention. , Fine scenic, comic, and industrial films are also, screened, making up one of the strongest and mhst ir.ter- * esting series yet seen at His Majesty’s. To-night the same programme will be shown.