AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 13, 7 September 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

o HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. Last night saw another appreciative audience at the popular amusement resort, when “Shamus O’Brien” again proved itself the greatest Irish drama yet screened. “The Mexican Courtship” is a most realistic photo drama introducing a great bull fight; it is a picture that will entrance you from start to finish. In fact, this bill should not be missed; it will be repeated tonight for the last time. On Monday a big change takes place, when something distinctly weird and mystifying will be shown, m the shape of “The Mystery of the Class Co ffin.” In the construction of the “mystery,” the author has drawn considerably upon his imagination. Workmen engaged on excavation work in the grounds of an ancient palace accidentally unearthed a glass coffin containing the perfectly preserved and apparently lifeless body of a beaut’ful Hindoo girl. It is conveyed to the palace, where a young count enlists the services of an old Indian fakir to solve the mystery. The latter discounts the theory of death, holding that she is merely in a state of everlasting sleep. By his hypnotic powers he restores her to a real live human being. She is befriended by the count, who falls in love with her. This is whore the trouble starts, and some exciting scenes are witnessed. Rather than see one or the other die of broken heart this exponent of the “black art” persuades the Indian maid to consent to again be put into an endless sleep, and thus pave the way for the European girl’s affection. A few “passes” and the trance is induced. In time the count is sufficiently recovered from bis lost love to marry bis first love, and “live happily ever afterwards.”