AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3, 3 January 1914, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNAKJJ’S PICTURES,,

Sot crowded but just u comfortable scat for all was last night’s report at Bernard’s .Pictures, when the programme screened proved to be a gigantic success. ‘‘The Pretty Ward,' nv the famous Cines actors, is a magnificent pourtrayal of high life brougiv. to a close through insufficient tuuds. The supporting pictures are also very line. The progiamme will be repeated to-night for the last time. In Monday evening’s new series, “The Phantom Thief,” introduces Mich Winter, Pathe’s Parisian detective. The story opens in Mr Waldnerb office, where sits the secretary, .fiwques Largeau. A man brings in a magnificent pearl necklace that In has been altering for Madame W a killin'. Walduer calls her, and the} are admiring it, when some friend: are announced. The libcklace disap pears and Jacques is arrested, ■ buf the detective, Nick, is sure of his innocence. The next day a man win calls himself Jean Bourin, applies foi the post of secretary and is engaged. Prom a letter ho discovers in the waste-paper basket, ho finds that Wahlner has made a claim upon tin insurance company for the value ol the necklace, and he. gleans that his employer is very hard up, and this gives him an idea, and when Wahl ner returns with the superintendou the secretary, ‘ tearing olf his mous tnche, reveals himself as the dreader Nick, and accuses the merchant o having stolen the necklace himself But another startling incident nov proves that the “Phantom Thief”, i; still busy and the sioutli has to era less himself at fault. Jacques is discharged, hhd Nick tries again. Unite mafcoly the culprit is found to be a pet monkey.