AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 45, 21 February 1913, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. None should miss the new programme screened for the first time last evening at His Majesty’s Picture Theatre, for the films, while as interesting as ever, have an unquestionable educative value. Their infinite variety can he understood when it is noted that “Paris from an eroplane,” “Harpooning Whales in the Antarctic,” Herring Fishing on the Dogger Bank,” and “Views of Palestine” all figure on the hill. “Two Daughters of Eve” and the “Amateur Ice-man” are a brace of splendid dramas, the former being one of the finest films the A.B. Co. has released for some time. “The Ranchman’s Trust” has a good story, and is finely acted. Jim Boulder ,a ranchman, receives a letter one morning from his old friend and chum, George Stapleton, a Xcw Yorker, saying his son, Eliott, is coming, to the ranch to pull himself together and to take good care of the boy, above all to keep liquor from him. Next day Eliott arrives and immediately falls in love with Boulder’s pretty daughter, Sue. She returns his love and thus arouses the insane jealousy of Bill Dunham, the ranch foreman., A month passes and Bill, discoveringj that Eliott’s weakness is drink, man-' ages to smuggle a bottle of liquor into his room, thinking the young fellow will disgrace himself. Eliott finds the bottle, but resists the temptation, and demands to know of Boulder who put it in the room. Boulder confronts Dunham, accuses him, and the foreman confesses. Boulder discharges him. Next afternoon Dunham finds Eliott and Sue together and attempts to kill the young Easterner. However, the bullet lodges in the boy’s shoulder, creating a painful but not dangerous wound. Sue has him carried into the bouse by the boys, then Dunham’s gun is found on the spot and the boys start in pursuit of the cowardly ruffian. A n hour later Dunham is brought back at a lariat’s end and Boulder is about to have him hanged when Eliott spares bis life by declaring him too big a coward to die. | Riding Dunham to the creek that marks the State line the boys drive him across it at gun’s point. Some weeks later Eliott and Sue are mar-' ried in the little town church, and ride off down the trail amidst a shower of rice and old shoes thrown by the gay cowboys, while the hills re-echo, the sound of their six-shooters popping in honor of the event. A feature of the evening was the splendid musical programme rendered I>y the Acme Picture Band, of seven performers. Mr Sid Bernard discoursed “sweet music” from Iris new trombone and had to give a double encore to satisfy the audience. j