AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 25, 4 May 1916, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. THE HEART OK A CHILD. The attendance was numerous at His Majesty’s Theatre last evening, when the London Kilm Company’s 5000 ft. drama “The Heart of a Child” was introduced with the new programme. The play is staged on a sumptuous scale, and the plot is most attractive. The plot concerns Sally [Snape, a typical coster girl, who while (not quite out of childhood is thrown im her own resources in London. (Actual scenes are shown in the coster [district, and there are views of a bank holiday at .’Ampstead ’Eath where the man with the barrow and the girl with 'the ostrich feathers make merry, jThrough young Lord Kidderminster’s ■motor car colliding with a dogcart in which Sally is being driven, the girl lis severely injured. The young aristocrat, visits Sally in the hospital, and Stakes a kindly interest in her. The 'film throughout, to its closing scene, [is first-class. Supporting films com- ! prise “The Cathedral at Rhcims,” (“A Woman of Nerve” (Reliance Drama), “Rathe Gazette,” and “JRe--1 leafless Dalton” (Luhin animated (cartoon).

IKE WtAN WHO STAYED AT HOME j TO-NIGHT. ( i The man in the title role is one Christopher Brent, and when the curtain rises we see him “at home” in the sitting-room of the “Wave Crest” Private Hotel, on the east coast of Kngland, a lounging indolent, welldre ssed fellow, with an inane laugh, ■in short, a perfect ass, minus brains, and phis an eyeglass. That, however, lis only his character on sight, and the character which he assumes in the eyes of Mrs Sanderson, the German landlady of the hotel and her Gorman son Carl, her German waiter Fritz, and ’ her German guest Fraud in Sehroeder. When Miss Myrtle, a self-appointed recruiting sergeant,i presents him with' a white-feather lie votes it a “topping.; little pipe cleaner,” and the same'hour he starts out on the work of foiling the ■ ■ <machinations of the four German spies, Ipr he is,an important circumstance in the British Secret Service. His first discoveryjis the Marconi Wireless hidden in the fire-place of the sitting-room and with great, promptness, he intercepts an important message and puts the apparatus out of order immediately. Tins' arouses the suspicions of the spies, and from thence on, the play becomes exciting and thrilling. Mr Lionel Walsh will appear as Christopher Brent, “The Man Who Stayed at Home,” and Miss Hilda if.orri agtoxi, a,s Miriam Lee, also :n thd ..i|ritissi Secret Service., “Gpf -Rich-Quick Wallingford” will he staged to-morrow night, for the iargwell performance. Box plans are on yiew all day .at Grubb's, where seats may he reserved without extra charge. The; ..curtain will rise ■: 1 8,10 nightly.