AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 27 May 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S PICTURES. Ine first presentation of the current series of pictures at Bernard’? Theatre was witnessed by a fairly large attendance of patrons last evening. “The Impostor” scenario rum as follows Lord Crowley, a young spendthrift, has by the death of ar Uncle inherited a vast fortune, undei condition, however, that he marine? Hose Conway, a cousin he has neve? seen. The young lord starts for Am erica to fulfil the. terms of the bequest. On the steamer he Lille in wifi: George West,' they become companions and on arrival in New York put up at a swell hotel, taking adjoining rooms. During the night West trie; to rob the nobleman but is discover ed and held up with a revolver. Crowley telephones for the police, by s f doing is thrown off his guard anc West fells him with a blow on thi !ip ad with a vase. Orowley is render ed insensible for a while and lose? his reason. West impersonates the young lord and is about to marry Miss Conway when the real Lore 1 Crowley appears with health restored and denounces the impostor. Other •dramas are: “The Bowstring” and “Father and Son,” both well acted and presented. The comedy, element is strong in “The Chaperone Gets a Ducking,” “Those Grassville Girls,” and “Through Hard Luck.” The miscellaneous films include a bird study entitled ‘The Life of a Heron,” “Gipsies in North Sweden,” and some of the latest numbers of Gauraont Graphic. On Thursday the Great Emerald Necklace Detective drama which is pronounced to be most sensational, will be screened for the first time.