AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 14, 15 January 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

Patrons turned up in strong force at His Majesty’s Theatre last evening, when the current programme was repeated for the second time. Tomorrow evening “A Girl Alone” is the star picture in the big, new series. The film is manufactured by the Hepworth Manufacturing Co., a London film which is gaining a big reputation, and the principal actors are Mr Alec. Worcester and Miss Gladys Sylvant, both artists of exceptional ability. The story concerns a beautiful girl, left penniless and alone in the world. She tries to earn her living, but is finding it a hard struggle, when a policeman, who has made her acquaintance since hei parents died, and loves her dearly, makes her an offer of marriage. She refuses, and Charles Wallis, a handsome but dissolute young blackguard, marks her down as his victim. A “marriage” follows. Six months pass and Charles is already tired of his new toy, and at length a letter to him from another woman begins to open Eileen’s eyes, she demands an explanation and then come the fatal words in answer—“ You are not married at all, our “marriage” was only a joke.” Just when shame and misery have completely overcome tier, and she falls unconscious under a railway arch, the old lover, in the shape of the policeman turns up. A scene in Charles’ room follows, and one of the two has a horsewhip in his hand. Charles, however, with all his faults is no coward, and recovering from his astonishment at the suddenness of the attack, he puts up a good fight. Backwards and forwards the two men sway, the fight going first in favour of one combatant, and then the other. The room is wrecked in the furious struggle, but the two excited men neither care nor notice and fight on unheeding. At length, however, the trained strength of the policeman prevails, and Charles lies vanquished and almost unconscious on the floor. Returning to his home, the victor tells Eileen of all that has happened" and kneeling at her feet once more, offers her his love and protection. This time the gii'l realises the worth of the true love that she previously rejected, and folded in her lover’s arms, with the past forgiven and forgotten, and hap pi ness dawning for her at last, she realises that she is no longer “lA Girl Alone.”