AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 86, 18 April 1913, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. “The Dead Man’s Child” was the star picture at His Majesty’s Theatre last night, when the new programme was screened to a large and appreciative house. The drama is a Selig production, manufactured in two reels. A wealthy count falls down a secret passage while paying a visit to his friend, and dies, leaving his daughter and her fiance the bulk of hie fortune, but in the case of their death without children/ the money to revert to the friend. Greed and avarice lure the friend into the concoction of a plot to seize the girl, with whom he is madly in love. He allows the wedding of the Count’s daughter to another, and then sets a Turkish accomplice to work. The Eastern slave deals with sleeping draughts in a very effective manner, and it is so arranged that while the bridegroom, imagines himself a widower, and his wife of a day lying in State in ' the : family vault, in reality she is struggling very desperately with the false friend in a neighbouring house. A' detective is employed when the outrage on the vault is discovered, and the attempt to murder the bridegroom is very happily frustrated, The concluding scenes when the detective jumps off an overhead railway bridge On to the express train and makes /the arrest are exciting to an extreme, and i the picture ends with a fireside scene and-a couple strangely re-unit-ed. The programme includes two excellent industrial pictures—the manufacture of steel and wood industry. ‘‘Why Tim Reformed,” a Kalem drama, pictures the awful predicament of a man who imagines he has shot hip Best friend. The “Good for Nothing” made everyone laugh, the Kalom comedy being splendidly acted. On his return to the little American village the ne’er-do-well buys a newspaper, and his leaders appear to hawe a remarkable effect in advancing thb interests of the town. “Strong Aim Nellie” is also exceedingly am-

using. To-night the same bill will be given