AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 62, 4 July 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD'S PICTURES. The star feature drama last night was by the Vitagraph Co., and was entitled "The Next Generation." It is a most stirring story told in a; legitimate style, •featuring Leo. De-< lany and Edith Story, both recognnised artists of the first water. On Monday evening the new programme will include Tannhauser's society life photo play, '<Tho Woman Pays," featuring Maud Fealy. Watson was so absorbed in business that he did not realise that he and his wife were drifting apart. Away from home, night after night, she never doubted his truthful excuses, but when he surprised her, coming home unexpectedly one evening, with Jack Dacres, a reckless follow, moving in their social set, and appearance were against her, Watson suspected her of the worst. In his fury, he drove her from the house. Twenty years after she and Dacres are running a gambling house in New York, when a young district attorney enters in the guise of a player, to secure evidence and order a raid. The woman recognises in the young attorney her own son whom she has not seen since a baby. When a scuffe ensues between he and Dacres, she grapples with the gambler, who shoots himself by accident, and thu s she saves the life of young Watson. In his gratitude ho prevails upon his father, who is an influential lawyer, to defend the unknown woman, who has been arrested for murder. Not until the lawyer meets his client in the prison cell does he know that it is his wife whom jhe has promised to vindicate. For the sake of the son, her identity is kept a secret between them. Watson wins the case, and Tom Watson is* satisfied.