AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1, 6 May 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S PICTURES'. “The Broken Sword” star drama made a big hit at His Majesty’s Theatre last evening, when there was a very fair The film is admirably acted and splendidly produced, it being evident that the manufacturers have spared no expense in giving the public the best that science can achieve. The plot is exciting, and the scene where the young exarmy officer falls a victim to the revenge of the circus employee is a particularly thrilling one. “The Peanut Industry,” “The Silent Witness,” “A Fugitive from Justice,” and the “Patho Gazette” are other pictures which pleased immensely. A magicpair of gloves figures in one of the films. There has been a sale of furriture and curios. Bernard, acr

seller, arrives a little late, and all that he can buy is a pair of gloves. Now the gloves have belonged to a thief and cannot forget their habits. Whilst Bernard is reading, the gloves of their own accord escape frofm the cabinet, crawl along the floor, acquire a penknife, cut Bernard’s pocket, steal his pocket-book and march off. Bernard observes the gloves as they are retreating, pounces on them, wrests the pocket-book out of their grasp, then locks the gloves away in a basket and puts them, back into the cabinet. But the gloves devise a way of escape through the key-hole. This, however, is but the beginning of the adventures of Bernard and his ghostlike gloves. Miss Daphne Wayne, one of the most famous of all American picture actresses, lias the principal part in “The Massacre,” a film which Madame Bernard has secured for Thursday’s programme. A beautiful study of the Dreadnought, H.M.S. New Zealand, showing to advantage our big battleship, is also included in this programme.