AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 8, 12 April 1916, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. “THE ESCAPE.” Lovers of the pictir.es have a treat in store for them at His Majesty’s to-night when a special him entitled “The Escape” will be shown for the first time. “The Escape” which is m seven reels was screened in New York at the time of the last big antivice crusade, ‘‘the film” was instrumental in concentrating public attention upon existing conditions, and raising an outcry which resulted in the police taking drastic action in smashing up many of the vice rings on the east side of New York. Iheie arc many contrasts in humanity in this story of the iniquities of New York’s underworld and slums, which cannot fail to drive homb its message into the heart of even the most casual observer.

j JOHNSON-WILLARD FIGHT. I The Town Hall was packed to the • doors at eight o’clock last evening by a ei'oivd composed almost entirely of men folk to witness the screening of } the film of the contest where the | white “hope,” Willard, secured the. I verdict after hy a knock-out blow in 1 the twenty-sixth round. There was no “padding” in the film, either at the commencement or during the , whole proceedings. After the presentation of the various officials and the spectacle of the contestants m their training operations, the rounds followed each other in rapid succession, and only occasionally were the breathers between the i omuls showing the operations of the seconds thrown upon the screen. The large audience followed the progress of the fight with great interest, and tiro merits of the two men were keenly discussed ! throughout. The management wisely decided to run the film right through and cut out the interval, and the evening’s performance was over early, indeed, the arrangements as a whole were excellent.