AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 11, 11 January 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. Monday’s big change of pictures brings for its star item the “Missing Finger,” a fine, thrilling drama by ( the premier American film manufactory. The story reads: The Jewel-] levs’ Protective Association get a call that a jewellery store has been entered. Searching for clue the chief finds the finger of a man, which evidently has been blown off by the dynamite. Next morning the burglar,! Michael Clark, rushes to the railroad; station and is just in time to swing on to the hack platform of a train as the detectives arrive. The officers charter a special engine and pursue the train, hut dash past as the fugitive jumps the train and escapes. A few years later Clark turns up at a ranch in the West and meeting Bill Jackson, the owner’s son, gets acquainted and is received. Mary Forrest (a sister of the surgeon who treated the wounded man) goes West for her health and is a guest at the] Ranch, both Jackson and young Clark falling in love with her. One day she takes a snapshot photo of the two men and sends a copy to her brother, who recognises the burglar and with the detective goes West to capture him. Clark resisting is shot and Bill Jackson captures Mary without resistance. , Other pictures will he A Moorish Maid,” a reproduction of Alfred Hill j and Y. Birch’s opera, “Lessons mi Liquid Air,” a scientific film of unusual interest, “A Visit to Senega , a good scenic, and a very laughable comedy, “A Leap Year Lottery Prize.” ______