AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 25, 12 January 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

There was an excellent attendance at His'Majesty’s Theatre last night ro witness the fresh programme of pictures' submitted.

“Rescued in Time” is a dramatic dim on the approved lines of Western American life. Jack and Harry love a widow who has a young daughter; out Jack is the one whom the widow most favours. Harry is pressing his suit when Jack arrives on the scene, and after leaving the widow’s house ae has the chagrin of seeing the widow being very kind to- Jack. In the street later on Harry insults the widow, and blows are' narrowly averted. The next scene shows Jack,- the widow and her little daughter on a pleasure (or perhaps business) trip. They row down a river, and the child is left in the boat while the widow and Jack make an excursion into the hush. The business nature of the trip is here disclosed, Jack getting from the wilow the “Yes” which men so much look for. Unfortunately Harry witnesses the betrothal. He comes upon the child in the boat, and, in revenge, sets the boat afloat on the river. In a short time Jack and the widow return to where they left the boat, and at once start down-stream to look for it. While they are still searching a woman notices the child drifting, and, swimming to the boat, gets in with the ”hild. The widow and Jack give the child up as lost and return home. The boat continues to drift down the river, and is finally picked up by Indians, who are camped by the side of the river. Here the child is recognised by an Indian woman, who was concerned in Harry’s insult to the widow, the widow having intervened when Harry was annoying the Indian woman. This Indian woman makes all haste to the borne of the widow, and Jack and a host of other cowboys sot off to the Indian camp. The Indians, however, move their camp, and the cowboys, Sliding their camping place deserted, engage in a long chase. The Indians, overtaken, laager themselves behind their horses, hut finally are dispersed, and the child and her rescuer are mounted on horses and .returned to tho widow’s house. Thereafter things go happily. There is no indication of who the rescuer of the child is—she swims like a Keran, and rides a horse like a bag of wheat, but is very pretty, so, perhaps, it really does not matter very much who she is. Altogether the film is one which keeps the attention fixed throughout. Other dramatic pictures of merit are “The Bridal Trail*,” and “The Writing on tire Blotter.” The comic films were “The 100 Dollar Bill.” “Cupid’s Chauffeur,” and “Intrepid Davy.” Excellent scenics were “Lake Verba no,” “Charcoal Burning in Brittany,” “Scenes in North Wales,” and “Ice at Odessa.” The programme will be repeated this evening. It was announced that the film “Dr. Brian Pelle and Bank Robbery” had failed to come to hand, but would be shown to-night.