AMUSEMENTS.
UIS MAJESTY’S PICTURES. To-night a film depicting our big Dreadnought will be screened at His Majesty’s Theatre. Another feature of the programme is a star drama in which dainty Daphne Wayne plays .he chief part. The presence of this popular little actress in the drama insures a treat for all. “His Western Way” also figures in the list. Bob Ford and Mary Frawley have been sweethearts since childhood, but Mary’s mother has social ambitions and induces her husband to leave the ranch home and go to live in the big city. Mary likes the new atmosphere and meeting a man about town, promises to marry him. Bob’s father finds the boy brooding over his lost sweetheart, he tells Bob to go to the city and “get the gal.” The cowboy is made of the right stuff and says “I will.” He goes and meets the city man who is intoxicated and telling his pals of his conquest. Boh knocks him down, then going to Mary then succumbs to her love, and inns and gives her a real lover’s kiss. Many then succumbs to her love, and the old sweethearts go hack to the mountains and are married. There is food for laughter in “A Busy Day •i the Jungle.” John and Mack, two modern Munchausens, decide to hunt big game in the jungle and do rot overlook the notebooks in which they are to keep an account of their peculiar experiences. On the horler of the njngle John shoots a rabbit md makes the following notation in is diary: “Killed before breakfast this morning, two lions, three elephants and one giraffe.” In their travels the brave hunters ire pursued by a ferocious lion and hastily climb a palm tree. The lion leaves in disgust hut continues the ohase when the unsuspecting hunters descend. The concluding scenes tell how they escaped from the lion to venture perilously near the big pot, kept boiling by expectant cannibals.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 8 May 1913, Page 5
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326AMUSEMENTS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 8 May 1913, Page 5
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