AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 81, 9 April 1915, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. "King in Name Alone," which is a powerful military drama, is to be screened to-night. It introduces the onlooker to an imaginary kingdom somewhere, in South-Eastern Europe, and unfolds before him a great and stirring drama of statp. Other pictures on the list are: "A Brand New Hero" (Keystone comedy), "Hunger Knows No Law" (Yitagraph drama), "Valley of the Aisne, France" (seejiiic), "Gaumont War Gazette," "Girl of the Seasons" (comedy drama).

"CHARLEY'S AUNT." It is exactly 22 years since W. S. Penly, in the title role, sent all London into convulsions of laughter, and every year since then lias seen a London revival, usually on each anniversary, which for this year, was last month. The enormous success which attends each revival proves that "Charley's Aunt" is more popular than ever, in fact, it is said that she will never die, and if the reception the "Charley's Aunt" Co., which is to produce this comedy at the Town Hall on Tuesday, April 13th. have had on their tour North, is any criterion, it is indeed a fact, for "Charley's Aunt" has proved as popular to-day with the New Zealand theatre-goers as when it was first seen in this country. The company will also produce our old friend, "The Private Secretary," another scream, as popular with many people as "Charley's Aunt." The bix plan is now open, and intending patrons would do well to book their seats early.

"WITHIN THE LAW." This well-known favorite drama will again !>e staged at Stratford on Wednesday next, for one night only. The story centres round .Mary Turner, a saleswoman employed by Edward Gilder. She is wrongly accused of a theft and sentenced to three years imprisonment. In the office of Gilder she swears vengeance. Four years later she is well installed in an apartment in Grammary Park, and making a splendid income, morally fraudulently, but legally "Within the Law." She achieves her first step in her ambition of revenge on her former employer by marrying his son Richard. Joe Carson is persuaded by a "stool pigeon" to rob Edward Gilder's mansion of a tapestry worth half a million dollars. Most of the principals meet at the house of Gilder and on the tapestry proving worthless the "crooks" realise it is a police trap. The "stool pigeon" is murdered' with a maxim silencer. The gang escape, leaving young Gilder and Mary Turner alone in the room. They are both arrested on a charge of murder, but things are eventually cleared up after a thrilling scene of the third degree type, between Inspector Burke and Joe Carson in the former's office at police headquarters. The play has many light touches which cause smiles, a special feature being the laughable manipulation of American slang terms by Agnes Lynch, a 'crook' and companion of Mary Turner's. Box plan will be on view at T. G. Grubb's, where seats may be reserved without extra charge.