AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 December 1912, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE,

The fine now programme at His Majesty’s Theatre was jOiidty_applauded by a splendid house last uiglit. Tne “star” drama, “Arabian Treachery,’' provides a record on thrills, and is, altogether, a remarkably fine picture. It is but of an attempt by an Arab visitor to the English resident’s house ■ to pay attentions to the wife of the European—an attempt which is resented in a manner not a little painful to the pride of" the Arab—that a plan to kidnap the lady’s child, in revenge, is, concocted by the affronted chief, who at the same time makes plans for a rising, and conceals a number of weapons in a’ hut in the desert. The plans succeed, but by the sagacity of a dog the woman, alone and unaided, discovers the child, abandoned in a lonely hut in the midst of the sandy plain. The district is infested In lions, and the woman is terrified to observe a number of these beasts, rendered, still more savage by hunger, prowling about the hut. At last, rendered bold by the quietness of the two inmates of the hut and by their own famishing condition, tho beasts attempt to break their way into the hut—one of the huge lions making leap after leap at the dopr until it begins to give way, despite all the woman can do to keep it close. Casting about desperately for a means of escape, she notices that pits have been dug in the rear of the hut. With frenzied haste she covers them with pieces of loose matting which also lie in the hut, and shrinking back against the wall with her child as the door at last gives way, sees the savage beasts fall into the pits. as soon as their weight falls on the matting. She runs hastily from the hut with the boy, and finds her husband and friends some distance away, attempting to force the Arab, whom they have captured after a sharp fight, to reveal the whereabouts o! the child. Her appearance is hailed with joy, and the Arab, realising that the dog’s sagacity has defeated his plans, is allowed to go free. The supporting dramas, comics, and scenics include some masterpieces of the cinematographic art, and the news of such an excellent assortment of films should attract another large attendance to-night.