AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 66, 13 February 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

FOLEY'S PICTURES. THE WOMAN'S LAW. A five-reel Gold Rooster production "The Woman's Law," featuring Florence Reed, was the principal item in the new programme shown last night at His .Majesty's Theatre. The drama, a most thrilling one, holds attention from beginning to end. Florence Reed, who fills the principal role, gives a clever interpretation of the fond mother, solicitous for the welfare of her son. The story depicts a husband addicted to dissolute ways, who during a quarrel engendered by jealousy kills an artist friend. The wife not wishing to have her son's name besmirched by his father's crime is forced to adopt the desperate expedient of taking a strange man (temporarily bereft of memory) into her home, as her husband. Taking the law into her own hands, she, by clever manoeuvring baffles the police and attains her desire. The plot ia finely worked out and interest is sustained right to the climax. A good supporting programme includes Pisa (a pretty scenic), "Charlie has a Picnic," and at "Coney Island," a breezy comedy by the Keystones. TOWN HALL. "THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE." TO-NIGHT.

At the Town Hall this evening Messrs J. and X. Tait wiU present MiLawrence Campbell, the popular entertainer, in C. J. Dennis's brilliant Australian character study, "The Sentimental Bloke." Time will not allow of a return visit the public therefore should avail themselves of this opportunity of hearing Dennis's work interpreted by Mr Campbell, who is said to be the author's ideal "Bill." The first number of this evening's programme is "A Spring Song," then in the following order will be presented "The Intro," "Doreen, Doreen," "The Play," Bill's description of Romeo and Juliet. "The Stror 'At Coot," "The Siren," "Mar," Bill's future mother-in-law, "The'Pilot Cove." Bill's first meeting with a clergyman. "Hitched" to his own Doreen, "Beef Tea," Bill is shown the error of his ways and taught a lesson, "Uncle Jim," one of the best, "The Kid," the king-pm, and the recital will conclude with "Mooch o' Life," a gem'in philosophy. The box plan of reserved seats for the season is now available at Fox s, Broadway.

"ARE YOU A MASON?" A real treat will he offered local play-goers on Monday night, 19th inst., when the Royal Dramatic and Comedy Company present J. C. Williamson's big farce comeay success "Are You a Mason?" It was played in New Zealand some 12 years ago by an English company after it had run very successfully' in England, and much joy was gained from Mr George Giddens's portrayal of Amos Bloodgood, a role he played in London and elsewhere with great success. Good jokes die hard, and the one involved in "Are I You a Mason?" is good for another century. It is quite needless to go into details*about the tangle that comes of Amos Bloodgood and his son-in-law, unknown to each other, pretending to be Masons in order to account for time spent in frivolity that would not be approved of by their respective wives. Add to this a gorgpuesque Mrs Bloodgood, whose belief in Freemasonry is as strong and abiding.as that of the Hindu to Buddhism, but who, at 'the same time, entertains an 80 horse-power suspicion ot her husband's fidelity, and makes his life a burden over a certain Angelina, long since-deceased, a lot of lively young people who help to fire the laughter furnace; and intervals of suspense as to the stability of the fraud to hold together in the face of cold facts, and you have a, capital entertainment that is clean, smart, and refreshingly English in tone and texture. The company lias just concluded a highly successful season at the Grand Openl House, Wellington. The box plans are now open at Grubb's, stationer.