AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 50, 26 September 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

FOLEY'S PIcfORES. .■HIS FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS." Laughter is tlio predominating notes in tlie current programme at His Majesty's to be screened for the last time to-night. The principal tun-maker is Ford Sterling, in a tworeel star Triangle Keystone, entitle 1, «H4 S Father's Footsteps." The film includes some exceptionally fine tangc dancing; there is a-skirmish in the cafe; later, the building catches hre, firemen arrive on the scene, and it is bore Ford Sterling's antics quite overshadow any of his previous attempt in film comedy. The supplementary films embrace "African Wild's Life," "An Oriental Plot," "Views of Russia," "War Gazette," and a. Vitagraph drama, "Shadow of Fear." CHARLIE CHAPLIN. Ai lii Majesty's Theatre, to-morrow night "id Thursday, "Chaplin-lovers" will have an opportunity of judging for themselves whether Charlie Chaplin really earns the huge salary the Mutual Company of New York now pay him for one comedy only per month. Chaplin's salary and bonus. it is said, amounts to £150,000, which is nearly seven times as much as tli? President of the United States receives. His new comedies are reporlI ed to bo funnier and different to those j which have made him the well-known I figure he is to-dav. The first of these is "The Shop-walker", in which ho is said bv the critic of the "Motion Picture World" to bo "in the pink of his fun-making condition". Seats may b,-, booked by ringing up the Theatre, phone, 231, '