AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 75, 5 April 1913, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD’S PICTURES. “The Den of the Lions,” a picture with a reputation, is the star film to be screened at His Majesty’s Theatre on Monday evening next. , This picture has created! a sensation throughout New Zealand, and is stated to be one of the most daring dramas ever acted before the cinematograph. Lieutenant Rose, R.N., appears in the “Train Wreckers.” Lieut. Rose, R.X., the famous naval officer, in this exciting adventure, is handed a confidential letter with instructions to deliver it to the Commander of a battleship lying in a neighbouring port. The fact that Lieut. Rose is in possession of important papers, leaches the ears of.spies in the pay of a foreign government who determine at all costs to waylay him and secure the valuable information contained in these papers. The succeeding scenes show how Lieut. Rose leaves by train, and how the spies chase and overtake the train in a powerful motor car, and by overcoming the signalman on duty in his box reverse the points with a view to sending the train to destruction. A series of most exciting scenes show the manner of Lieut. Rose’s escape accomplished by disconnecting the couplings while the train is running at full speed. A severe struggle then takes place between Lieut. Rose singlehanded, and a gang of men employed by the spies, and the manner in which he eludes these ruffians successfully and delivers his papers to his superiors is shown in a thrilling series of railroad and open sea pictures never before accomplished on such a realistic scale.