AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 41, 13 February 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. There was an excellent audience at His Majesty’s Theatre last njghL when the week’s first change of programme was submitted. Included in the fine set ( of pictures was a most remarkable animal drama entitled “Lost in the Jungle,” by the Selig Company, bif'"America', taken at enormous expense, and miles.of travel. The scene opens at a Boer farm in Africa, showing the farmer and lias, daughter quarrelling over her lover, whom her father orders her to marry. At this juncture a wealthy neighbour arrives to introduce his son, who has been away ip England; He falls in love with the daughter,--proposes to her and is accepted; but the father, who knows nothing of this,; orders her to marry her Boer lover, dr never enter his door again. Cut to the heart by her father’s cruel words she sets off through the jungle to her lover’s home, twenty miles distant. As she is taking her departure, she comes across one of the natives chastising her best friend, the elephant. She reproves the native for his harsh treatment to a dumb animal. She goes up to the elephant and caresses ft,,the animal responding by placing his trunk around her neck. She continues her journey into the jungle. She becomes exhausted, is lost, and is attacked by leopards, who maul her fearfully. Meanwhile the elephant has escaped from his cruel keeper and makes for his old haunts in the jungle. The wealthy neighbour and his son return in search or a lost pocket book, and learn that the girl has departed for their homo through the jungle. They immediately set out in search of her, but she is in safe keeping, as, while she is heipg mauled by a leopard, the elephant comes up, and picking her rip like a child on Ins trunk carries her in the direction e£ the searchers, who eventually discover her being carried out of danger, and is set down at their feet. A tine coloured flower picture was one entitled “Chrysanthemums,” showing some remarkably fine specimens of this beautiful flower. Also, to be shown on Wednesday for one night only, is the picnic on the New Plymouth beach. This fine picture is one that no one should miss.

Incidental music is rendered each evening by Bernard’s Symphony Orchestra-