AMUSEMENTS.
HIS MAJESTY'S PICTURES. * To-nights new programme introduces the new company of Celio players in a famous 3000 ft detective drama "The Black Circle." Jt is a most exciting exploit of a gang of Chicago expert thieves. "Crayfish" is a Pathecoloured educational, and "Valley of the Danube" is a tine scenic. The Vitagraph Co. is well represented in "An Unwritten Chapter," a line dramagraph. Ater a long discussion with her collaborator, Phillip Mowbray, concerning their next novel, Ruth Sterling makes a one thousand dollar wager that within a month she will have found a new sensation. She goes to a small fishing village in .Maine, and stays at the house of one of the coastguards, David Skelton, who falls in love with her. In order to hasten his declaration of love, Ruth one day pretends to sprain her ankle, and allows him to carry her to the house. The next day she receives a telegram from Phillip saying that the month is up. She asks him to meet her at dinner next day. David, watching through the window of her house sees her meet Phillip, and hears her tell him of how she foiled the coastguard into loving her. He enters the room and denounces her as a false and heartless woman. When Ruth sees David," she realises that, in spite of the way in which she has used him, she really loves him. The famous feature picture "Quo Yadis" will be screened next Friday and Saturday evenings only.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 39, 16 February 1914, Page 7
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249AMUSEMENTS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 39, 16 February 1914, Page 7
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