AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 90, 17 August 1915, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

H IS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. The new change of pictures at His Majesty’s Theatre last night was witnessed bj* a very good audience, and the films screened was quite as good as those of last week. “The King’s move in the City,” a powerful Edison drama in two parts, is the feature of the new programme, and it contains a beautiful scene of a burning bunding—the rescue of two girl inmates, and other stirring scenes, combined with the usual love story. The 9th instalment of Adventures of Kathlyn in the “Spellbound Multitude” easily surpasses its predecessors, and this 'section contains the forcible crown? ing of Winnie, a younger sister of Kathlyn, who escaped. The supporting pictures are also a good lot, especially the two Keystone comedies, which kept the audience in shrieks of laughter, both pictures dealing with hen-pecked husbands. This programme will be screened again to-night and tomorrow. GRAHAM MOFFAT’S SCOTTISH PLAYERS. “A Scrape o' the Pen” is to be produced at the Town Hall to-morrow evening when those delightful and popular players, Mr and Mrs Graham Moffat, will appear in their play of Scottish farm life. The play is centred round the old Scotch marriage ceremony, and the certificate handed each party was known as a scrape o’ the pen. The story opens in the kitchen of Honeyneuk Farm. Seven I years before the opening of the play, Alex (the son of old Mattha and Lee■/Ac Inglis) marries Jean Lpwther (a new maid at -the farm), and immediately leaves for South Africa. Jean hearing after Ids departure that lie has betrayed hippie Oliphant, tears up her copy of a scrape o’ the pen, and a little later marries Hugh Menzies (the farm manager), while little Eppie (Alec’s child now motherless) is brought up bv Jean in ignorance of her mother’s disgrace. Later Alec’s pocket book containing his copy of the marriage certificate is stolen from him in Africa, but the piece of paper being valueless to the thief is discarded by him, only to be picked up by someone who kpows the old people and returns it to the farm. Mattha sends for Jean, but she in tears begs forgiveness, which is granted by the old man. Alec, however, returns unexpectedly to the farm on New Year’s day, and is Jean’s first footer. After a stormy scene, Alex is taken up to see his little girl sleeping .peacefully, and the sight of her innocent face, decides him on his course of action, and he burns Ids copy of the certificate as the curtain falls on a happy household, •loan’s husband neyer learning the truth. The Box Plan is at T. G. Grubb’s.