AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 6, 2 January 1913, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

“The Tragedy of the Desert” is the great star him to be screened at His Majesty’s Theatre to-night. An English doctor discovers his wife in the arms of an Oriental diplomat. Distracted, he bids farewell to civilisation and plunges into the desert—anywhere—to forget. He is found by an Arab tribe. “There is no past, no future for mo,” he mutters, and embraces their faith. He marries the Sheik’s daughter, and years crawl by. Then, from out of the bitter past, his white wife appears. He repulses her caresses and escorts her from the village. Witnessing this, his Mohammedan wife thinks she has lost him for ever, and sends her own soul to Allah. That is the “Tragedy of the Desert.” “The Passing Shadow,” another excellent picture, is also to bo screened. ’Frisco Sam, p tramp, attempts to secure a drink of water at a far in 'house oik* morning and is brutally knocked off the place by the son of the owner and one of the hands. Swearing vengeance, “Frisco” limps off down the road and meets a little crippled, girl who smilingly offers' him a newspaper, and learns that hus father, a wealthy physician, has died and attorneys ate <sceking him. He beats bis way to the city, proves his identity to the attorneys and finds he has been left a fortune of £50,000. Possessed with but one thought of vengeance on the rustics who mistreated him, Paisons now prepares Ins plans. The remainder of the story is of thrilling interest, the; picture being a great masterpiece.