AMUSEMENTS.
HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. “The Warrior Maid” is the title of the tenth instalment of the Adven- 1 tures of Kathlyn to he presented at His Majesty’s Theatre to-night at the head of a very attractive programme.* Kathlyn and her sister Winnie dis- 1 appear through the trap leading from' the big animal cage to the tunnel underneath as shown in the bust series, 1 creating a chaos in the Royal box. 1 Kathlyn is now made leader in a re- 1 volutiouary movement against Umbel-* lab. She becomes a real Joan of Arc,! with an automatic gun of modern de-* sign. „ Umballah’s soldiers prepare a 1 counter action, which culminates in! one of the most thrilling scenes yet! seen in the series of Kathlyn. Other* supporting films are: “The Boars Om-* elwtte” (clever cartoon), “Another I Chance” (drama), “A Peculiar Honey-* moon” (comedy), the Australian Gaz-* etto (including the recent disastrous* fire in Auckland, in which 70 valuable! horses wore burned to death at Craig’s stables), “A Maori Regatta,” and a screaming Keystone comedy entitled “Hogan’s Wild Oats.”
J. C. WILLIAMSON'S GREAT PATRIOTIC DRAMA.
“The Man who Stayed at Home,” to be staged at the Town Hall o* Saturday next by the J. C. Williamson Co. is a new spy diania "brilliantly, and cleverly constructed.* The dramatists secure their first surprise upon their audience in showing that to stay at home may be as heroic a proceeding and as important as* taking deadly gas in tire trenches. The secret service work is what the hero of the new drama is employed upon, and it is really a pleasure to note, said a critic recently, that from the first moment that Christopher Brent (“The Man who Stayed at Home”) appears in his true character as a secret service agent, the attention of the-audience is secured ,aud the unfolding of the exciting plot is followed with the closest interest. When the debonair “eye-glass idiot” accidentally discovers the wireless installation in the boardinghouse, and cleverly puts it out of action one feels that Christopher Brent, “the man who stayed -at home,” is not only a personal friend, but a friend to the Empire. The subsequent incidents all help to sustain Lho interest in the new drama right up to the fall of the curtain. A feature of the production of “The Man Wko Stayed at Home” is brilliantly clever performance of Miss Violet Paget in the role of Miriam Leigh, and the splendid representation of the gallant Englishmen, Christopher Brent, by Mr Frank Harvey (Tjbe Man who Stayed at Home). The scene where he is handed a white feather, is, it is said, intensely dramatic. The plans will be opened at on Thursday next, at 8 a.m.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 95, 23 August 1915, Page 8
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455AMUSEMENTS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 95, 23 August 1915, Page 8
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