AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 85, 17 April 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. “Why Jim Reformed”, is one of the best films to be screened at His Majesty’s to-night. The picture is written and produced by William Duncan, who plays the title role. It is a story dealing .with an habitual drinker, who is led to believe that he has killed his best friend while under its influence. After a shopping trip to town one day, while at the road-house on the way home, one drink develops into a great many, and some hours later he awakens from a drunken stupor to find an empty flask and a revolver lying beside him on the grass near the roadway. He cannot account for the gun until he discovers his friend, lying near him dead. On his own hands he discovers blood stains. As everything seems to prove conclusively that he has committed the crime, Jim decides to give himself up to justice. The sheriff, meantime, has learned that Jim’s friend was accidentally killed by a wolf trap that had discharged a load of buckshot into his back. Jim is released, but this harrowing experience serves to teach him a very bitter lesson. That vivacious little American picture actress, Ruth Roland, has some fun in “Strong Arm Nellie.” Nellie’s father objects to the punching ball, because it interferes with his after-dinner siesta. But when burglars come along, Dad changes his tune. The matinee yesterday was an immense success, the building being crowded. The kiddies enjoyed “Cinderella” quite as much as they would a real pantomime, and the picture could ,surely have never had a more appreciative reception.