AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 35, 17 January 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. “A HOUSE OF CARDS.” A now programme of photo plays -will bo presented to-night. The feature drama is a two-reel tiiibin release entitled ‘‘A House of Card's.” In vJus thoroughly unusual play a deck of cards is compared to a life* and as the cards are shuffled and dorit and various hands dissolve into the action on the screen. Each deal symbolises the scene following. Thus the career of John Allen finds a parallel in a game of poker. At first he stands “ace high” in the esteem of his companions, but the picture reveals many dramatic changes in a quaint manner. For sheer originality of treatment this is by all odds a noteworthy production. Another prominent item of this new programme will he a two-reel ’Vitagraph comedy entitled “Janet of the Chorus.” This is described as the story that rocked Broadway with merriment, ft has to do with a chorus girl, a young man about town, and his uncle, who is a woman-ha-tor. Supporting films include; “The Conversion of Smiling Tom,” a Selig drama of the Western prairie; the hi lest “Topical War Budgt” and “The Smoking Out of Bella Butts.”