SYDENHAM PICTURES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14974, 22 May 1914, Page 10

SYDENHAM PICTURES.

Tho new programme at tho Sydenham Theatro last night was an all-round attractive one. The chief film was entitled "Asta Neilsen, Suffragette." The story told of a young woman, who, returning from a residence abroad, met a handsome stranger on tho boat, but lost, track oi him on her return home. Here she followed her mother's lead ns a militant suffragette, and led many a crusade with fanatical fervour, ar.d hunger-striking while in gaol. Finally she was deputed to blow up the Prime Minister's residence by a bomb. She entered the residence ostensibly to interview the Prime Minister, and had just hidden the bomb, timed to explode at midnight, when she discovered that the object of her attentions was no other than her acquaintance on the boat. She tried to recover the bomb, but failed, and left the house. Finally sho saw the error of her ways, and returned to the house to confess, but she was too lato to avert the explosion. Fortunately, nobody was hurt, and tho Prime Minister saved her from the consequences of her crime.by introducing her as his future wife. Other pictures wero:—"Life in Hong-Kono-" (native scenes), "The Pathe Gazette" (showing views of destroyers in Ulster Bay, Princo of Wales landing at Dover, the Cambridge crew at practice. French fashions, etc.), "Hero and his Blind Master" (drama of a dog's fidelity), "Teaching his Wife.a "Lesson" and "Tho Lawyer, Dog and - Baby," two

splendid comics). The be repeated to-night.