AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 29 April 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S PICTURES

1 here was the usual crawded house at Hi® Majesty’s last night, when the new,.programme met with a splendid reception. “The Eye of the Idol” is a sensational drama of an unusual character. The old inventor, fearing inti uders, places some complicated mechanism in his study, ®o that should anyone step on the mat belli d the chair, the eye of the idol sees and records everything, for the reason that the “eye” is the lens of a cinematograph. The inventor’s assistants are both in love with his grand-daughter, and when one is away on the Continent, the other steals the old man’s will, and substitutes a forged one, while the inventor, himself, is found dead in his study chair. The.death is a mystery. Week® afterwards the assistant remembers about the “eye of the idol.” The film is developed, and detectives find a novel way of making the criminal confess his crimes and restore the stolen will. On his bedroom wall, they screen the story of his crime, and it is then shown that the old inventor was foully poisoned. “The Province of Mozambipue,” and “Rapids of the River Kuma” are both excellent pictures, the latter scenic being the product of a Japanese firm of film manufacturers. There are a fine series of comedies. “Paying the Board Bill,” “A Winter Romance,” “An Accidental Dentist,” and “The Stolen the laughter which greeted them. A very powerful drama is presented « in the “Derelict’s Return,” and it is only the magnificent acting of the principal® that makes the pietpre a really good one.- “An Empire. Maker,” and “Kitty and the Bandits” also appear in the bill, which will bo screened again this evening for the ■second time.