AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 25, 28 January 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE,

The inclement weatfler last evening seriously affected the attendance ai His Majesty’s Theatre otherwise there would have been a bumper house,as the programme is one of the best screened for a very long time. “Nellie, the Lion Tamer” is a subject which does not allow the- attention of the audience to wander from the sheet for an instant. Nellie and Alfred are partners. Nellie is one of the most daring of lady lion tamers, whose appearance is invariably the sign for a large audience. Alfred loves Nellie and she appears to return the feeling, until one day she makes the acquaintance behind the scenes of the circus at which she is performing, of the handsome Count Vilhelm. One night Nellie and Alfred make their usual successful appearance, and a very vivid and realistic picture shows the circus ring and the lions’ cage in the centre, which Nellie enters to put the animals through their skilful performance. The Count comes to see a rehearsal, and Nellie finds his attentions more than - a little pleasing; but when he asks for a flower she wears in her breast, she coqnettishly throws it into the lion’s cage, and tolls him that if he really loVes her he will go after it. Vilhelm hesitates, but he is no coward, and at last cautiously opens the door of the cage and, to Nellie’s dismay, enters. While she, in an agony of fear, thrusts a steel bar into the cage to keep the animals at bay. he ,carefully stoops and picks up the flower. The nobleman’s pluck finally decides Nellie in his favour and that night she leaves the circus, and drives away with him in his motor car. In the second part, the Count proves a villain, and Nellie returns to her partner. The concluding scene is a very effective one showing the re-unit-ed pair standing side by side with their chief lion “Sultan.” The other films are all exceedingly good and the pictures will be screened again this evening for the second time.