AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

I HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. To-night’s programme is a strong one. The dramas, in particular, are sure to be popular, for they include in their number one or two films of exceptional merit. “Outwitted by Horse amid Lariat,” “A Woman of Arizona,” The Village Vixen”— they are all masterpieces. “Helping John” is one of those typical American pictures featuring Bigelow Cooper, Miriam Nesbitt, and others of the Edison Company. John Winter is just inaugurating a campaign in the stools: market, by which he jhopes to gain a firm hold on a company known as the Star Milling Company. His plan involves forcing the price of Star preferred down, by attacking the market. Edith, John’s wife, has many of her own, and, not knowing anything of her husband’s business, concludes by his selling Star Preferred that he is short of money. She decides to secretly buy this Star Preferred that he has to sell, and give it back to him as a surprise. Her brokers, recognising her from the signature on her cheque, and knowing her husband’s relation to the market, figure that some subtle coup is on, and they and their customers follow her unconscious lead, the combination naturally forcing Star Preferred up to an unprecedented figure. The scene shifts from the offices of Edith’s brokers to the stock exchange and to John’s office back and forth in increasing excitement. John is wiped out! Edith gets control of the stock, and her brokers' statement shows she has made a fortune while she was “helping” John. She arives at his office just as he wonders how he can ever get his head above water again. Explanations are made, and all ends happily when, in the following scene, John is patiently explaining to Edith, at homo, the details of Ins business. “A Voyage to Turkey” is a remarkable scenic, and the picture should not bo missed.