AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 48, 21 October 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

“Attacked by a Lion” is the star picture at His Majesty’s Theatre tonight. In this great masterpiece of the producers one is first introduced to a band of marauding Arabs who chance across a settler and immediately give chase. Ho, however, finds shelter with a farmer and his family, who at once prepare to resist to the utmost the expected attack. Anything and everything is pressed into service for barricades and only just in time as bullets are already causing great havoc in the room. The farmer’s wife rushes to the telephone, then only connection with the outside world, but the Arabs have .already spotted the wire and in a few minutes have destroyed the only possible way of securing speedy rescue, not before, however, a part of the message has 1 reached a neighbouring settler named Howard, who starts off alone to the rescue, not realising the seriousness of the situation. Being uncertain of his way he before* long finds himself somewhat out of his course. He comes by chance across an hyena busily engaged on some bones, only staying to drive off this beast of ill omen then continues his perilous ride. Then follows the story of the lion, so realistic that one cannot but help experiencing some of the sensations that must be felt by the hunter of big game. Never before has such a. splendid picture close up to the camera been taken of a ferocious, wild, untamed lion, and the courage and pluck of the participators m tm.s scene is remarkable, making one of the most daring and sensational pieces '-'-of realism ever before attempted. '‘Little Boy Blue,” and “Royal Ascot” are other pictures of merit, to be screened for the first time tonight. COMMISSION ER RICHARDS. If the weather should satisfactory, there will bo a big crowd in the Town Hall to-morrow evening, the occasion being the welcome meeting to Commissioner Richards, head of the Salvation Army in New Zealand. The meeting will lie presided, over by Mr Masters, senr. Several citizens of Stratford will deliver welcome speeches, and the Wesleyan choir will render items. The Stratford Town • Band, and Eltham Salvation jVrmy Band will also be present. As has been the case in othei places, crowds will roll up to give the Commissioner and his staff-officers a loyal welcome.