AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 97, 28 August 1913, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S PICTTJBES. To-night an excellent series of star films will lie screened at Bernard’s Theatre. As John Fuller says in his letter to the manager; “Cheer up, Bill. You will get good films now.” Well, to-night we are on the way. The star picture is entitled “The Hidden Message.” The heroine of the story is the ward of a wealthy porce-' lain manufacturer, who, not content with his legal rights as her guardian, seeks her hand in marriage, pressing his suit with more ardour than she likes. To escape persecution, she hits upon the romantic idea of placing in a vase a message promising to marry whomsoever will rescue her from the attentions of her guardian. A young millionaire, who eventually buys the vase and reads the message, instantly visits the manufactory and falls in love at first sight, and the pair escape at night through the window. The guardian sets off in hot pursuit, and a stirring chase ensues, from haywaggon to motor-car, by land and by water till the runaways, in desperation, charter a balloon, and set off through space. The stern guardian, however, is hanging on to the guy rope below, and subsequently falls into the sea. Ho is rescued and imediately sets off in another balloon, but with no better success. The lighted end of his cigar sets fire to the safety valve of the balloon, and he and the aeronaut fall to the earth in the smoking ruins of the balloon, the guardian only surviving long enough to forgive the runaways. There are seven entries for the amateur trials, including one lady, to-morrow (Friday) evening.