AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 74, 30 June 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. I'HE LONESOME BEAUT. Miss Margarita Fischer, the beauty actress of tne screen, is featured in the appealing lour-part American creation •‘The Lonesome Heart,” to be screened at Lis Majesty’s Theatre to-night. The story centres on the wanderings of Saxnanthy, a lonesome little orphan girl, who passes her days in an orphanage, remote from all sympathy and from evert the semblance of love. 1 She develops a wish to see the big outside world, and decides to run away. In this scheme the gardener assists her, and the young girl, with her few most treasured belong'ings tied up in a handkerchief, is seen on life’s# hard road. She eventually meets a handsome young man fishing in a stream, and ho is attracted by her strange appearance. The I two are drawn together, and 1 then folI lows a most charming romance. The supporting films arc “War Gazette,’ “The Serpent’s Tooth,” “With the French at Salonika.” The usual matinee will be held on Saturday at 1.30 p.m.

•MR ALLEN DOONE’S RETURN. TOWN HALL TO-NIGHT. “MOLLY HAWN.” V ' Readers.will bo pleased to learn that the famous Irish Character Actor and foremost Irish Singing Comedian after an absence of over twelve months will make his ro-appearanco!at the Town Hall, Stratford, this evening, when he will open in a delightful comedy drama, “Molly Pawn,” The Australasian rights have been secured by Mr Donne at big expense. The picturesque comedy drama introduced far the first time into Now Zealand Infs received the firm grip of friendly approval, and made innumerable friends all over Australia, and it is certain to become very popular in the Dominion. .Play- / goers who appreciate simplicity, com- I bined with beauty and wholesome stor- J ios of everyday life, Allen Doono and his favourite company are household words in the play-going community., “Molly Pawn” is one of the latest/ and perhaps the most successful of the modern Irish poetical stories; it comes to us largely earmarked with a record of productions in Australia, untouched by any previous successful Irish plays. The box plan is on view at Grubb’s, also a day sale of early door tickets.