AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 7, 11 April 1916, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. “THE ESCAPE.” ‘ , ! . Screened in Xew York at the time of the last big anti-vice crusade, ‘The Escape” was instrumental in concentrating public attention upon existing conditions, and raising an outcry against the traffic in souls which compelled the police to clean up and smash many of the vice rings on the east side. There are many contrasts in humanity in this story of the iniqui ■ ties of New York’s underworld and slums. Presented so fearlessly, that it cannot fail to drive home its cry for the proper mating of the sexes into the heart of even the most casual observer. “The Escape,” which is in seven reels, will be screened at His Majesty’s Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday next.

WH-LARD-JOHNSON FIGHT FILM. TOWN HALL. To-night at the Town Hall, Stratford picture goers will have the pleasure of being present at the ring side, and viewing per “cinema,” the contest which decided the world’s championship for the coveted belt which has adorned such champions as John L. Sullivan, Boh Fitzsimmons, Kilrain, Charlie Mitch el, Jim Jeffries, Tommy Burns, Sharkic, and many others. The first reel shows the two men at their Respective training quarters, Willard allowing his trainers to throw the medicine ball, we’ghing Kill), with great force at his chest and stomach. Johnson puts some comedy •into his work by pushing a steam,roller. The audience is then treated to the famous battle of twenty-six rounds in all its reality. The Negro in the 2(ith round going down and out after the “go” of his life. A close-up view is seen of the President of the Cuban Republic, also the Cuban police guarding the champion Willard from the enthusiastic crowd of admirers at the finish .of the fight. Bob Fitzsimmons, the old-time New Zealand heavy-weight, is seen congratulating Wiliam.