AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 83, 3 December 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It was a delighted audience that trooped away from the popular picture theatre, His Majesty’s,' last evening, when an exceptionally lino series of pictures were shown. Probably never has a more interesting film been screened than that absorbing drama “The Passer-by.” The scene opens with a view of a dinner given by the bridegroom of the ’morrow to his men friends. One is absent, and they elect to fill the vacant place with the first “passer-by,” whom the butler can lay hands on. Reluctantly, the stranger is dragged in; an old man, he is lean and bent, apparently haunted by the ghosts of the past. Each tells a story, and then the “passer-by” tells his—and what a story! The face of the stranger is drawn nearer and nearer until he alone can be seen, and then the scene changes, and the story ol the “Passer-by” is told, nob in word;but in the actual deeds. A dinner par tv and another would-be bridegroom, the “passer-by,” are wrecked because the bride has eloped with another. From that hour the face of his intended is responsible for recurring irisfor tune. He nearly “corners”-wheat, but the man against him is his intended’s husband, and ho loses purposely and is ruined. And so the story goes on and step by step the unfortunate man sinks into the mire, always the woman to plunge him deeper. The story ends, and the first scene is renewed. No One speaks when that story is ended, but the bridegroom-to-be hands the stranger a card. One glance at the name on that card, one glance at the painting of his host’s mother." gazing down from the mantelpiece, it sufficient for the stranger. He 1 knew then whose hospitality he had enjoyed. Tearing up the card, he turns, and with one shrug of his shoulders goes out into the night. There are nu merous sensations in the great “star” drama, “The Red Cross Martyr,” a stirring tale of the war in Tripoli. The heroine, a beautiful girl, goes to the front as a hospital nurse. She is foul iy murdered,, and her lover avenges her death. From ah aeroplane he drop bombs on to the Arab city, until at last, coming too near earth, the Arab: wreck his machine, and he falls head long. An American film, the preduc tion is a stupendous one, and the picture should not be missed. The “Gait mont Graphic” fairly scintillates with 'scenes of deep interest, and this popu lar film was loudly applauded. The ;cenics and comics are all good, and the series should attract a big attend ance this evening, when they will bo screened for the second time.