AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 35, 11 October 1915, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS IViAJt&TVS THEATRE. "JESS" WILLARD. To-night "Jess" Willard. the world's champion boxer, is featured iii a thrilling romance, "The Heart Punch." .less Willard, the Texas cowboy, can well add "picture actor"' to his list of accomplisliments. While on a flying visit to New York after signing the agreement with .lack .Johnson, "for the world's championship in Havana. Willard was conducted to the motion picture studios, and within half an hour found himself enacting a drama written round his first big fight. 'J he story is simple but pleasing. Willard. out of employment, is "discovered" by a promoter and trained for a big contest on the night of the fight. Dis little daughter lay dying, and he wavered between fulfilling the contract and remaining at the bedside of his child, but at the eleventh hour decided to light, In the ring the vision of the little girl rose before him. For her sake he must win. The money might save her. He delivered the heart punch. That night on Ins return the child lay pale and still. From all reports of the Willard-Johnson hght the AVbite.'s condition was ;perfect. This film gives an excellent idea of the White Hope's fitness. Other films to be shown are "The Lost Lusitania"—With the French Army m'AlSiU . e _\Vi,r Gazette—Kill qr CureFollowing a Clue (detective), and Keystone'' littje hatchet.