AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 6 January 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. Something quite new in the “star” drama line will be screened for the first time at His Majesty’s Theatre this evening. “The Price He Paid” is the latest sensation. For once there is no wholesale slaughter of bloodthirsty Indians, but the greed of a European doctor is met with its just reward. “The Half-breed’s Treachery” is an excellent picture. James Spence, an old miner, had worked for many years on a hopeless claim and finally died without reward. His daughter Ekie, buried him and returning to the hut was confronted by a drunken half-breed who had come to rob the place. A struggle ensues which, however, is relieved by Joe Edwards, a young prospector who came to the rescue and promptly kicked the robber out. Edwards proposed to continue working the claim as Elsie’s partner and does so for some time again without success. One day the half-breed, again drunk, passes the mine and shoots at Joe. Edwards is wounded, but not seriously. The completion of the story must bo seen to lie believed. The scenario of the “Widow Casey’s Return,” a Lubin comic, reads: “O’brien and Sullivan are both striving for the good graces of the pretty widow Casey. Mrs Casey favours O’Brien who is the younger man and rather good looking, and always enjoying his visits, she one day, when going out marketing pins a card on the door which reads “Wait inside.” Leaving the house ■she drops her black sash and a mischievous boy tacks it on the door post and changes the card to “Wake inside.” The neighbours seeing the badge of mourning on the door, flock to the house to enjoy the wake. All bringing tears and flowers. O’Brien and Sullivan among the rest. A minister being in the crowd they all propose that as the flowers should not be wasted that instead of a wake there should be a wedding. Who was the selected bridegroom ? THE GAY FOLLIES. All arrangements are now completed for the above company opening here in the Town Hall on Thursday. The company is highly spoken of throughout Australia and the Dominion wherever they have appeared. Popular prices arc advertised, and the box plan is at Grubb’s. It is a long while since a first-class company appeared on the local boards, and no doubt the Town Hall will be crowded on Thursday night.