AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 27 December 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

There was a crowded audience at the above theatre last night, when an excellent programme, which was sub mitted for the first time, was received with well-merited applause, liie star item was a Rex (dm entrtlod “Eyes that See Not.” This film is upwards of 1000 ft. in length and vividly brings home to De spectator the grinding effects of intense competition among employees. “A strike lias broken out at a large factory and poverty has fought its grim battle m the homes of the men. So a leader is chosen from the hands, 'and he is sent to the employer demand better terms of employment, for himself and his fellows. On tee garden i oof of a palatial building the r. an finds his empoyer’s wife, attired in a robe which must have cost at least a whole year’s w r ages. The woman 3 lotle daugher was with her, a soft lit tie thing in white : and the man thought of his own child lying on a sack bed,, with the figure of death standing near. He thought of it all and the bitter injustice of the worker’s life stood before him like one giant nightmare. In maniac rage the man advanced towards the defenceless woman and she, fearing the light that was m his eyes and the strength that was m bis arms, grappled with him. Ho ,stumbled against the balcony railings and in one moment he has toppled ever the roof into the depths below. By a mirgcle he lived, and by a mil ado also the conscience-stricken woman lelt constrained to visit her victim. The child of the poor lifted her dull eyes in wonder, not at the silks and the golden sight she beheld, but at the sympathy in the woman’s face. She opened the eyes of her husband, and the prayer of the men was granted. They went back to their work under better conditions, but at what a cost! only those who have been through tne mill can ever tell.” “Life with a ‘Circus” is an exceptional educational subject, depicting life behind the scenes of a mammath circus. The elephants, horses, zebras, camels, and animal waggons present very fine scenes of animated bustle. The arrival of the circus trains and the business of unloading is graphically shown. The remaining pictures were all good, and the theatre should be well filled again both to-night and Saturday. '