AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 66, 14 October 1916, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

j FOLEY'S PICTURES, THE STRAIGHT ROAD. There are many powerful scenes in the four-part Famous Players' adaptation of "The Straight Road," the star attraction at His Majesty's Theatre last night. Gladys Hanson, in the role of Mary O'Hara, gives a forceful performance. For the major part of the story she is a resident of the slums, fighting against the lure of her besetting sin—drink MiArthur Hoops has the '"'heavy" part, that of Douglas Aines, a man of mean 3 and position, whose affections go most strongly to the woman w)io happens to be nearest to him at the moment. Miss Shephad is "Lazy Liz," a young woman who frequents saloons, and who manifests ar times the untamed, the fearless, and the furious jealousy characteristic of hrr environment. Lorraine Huling as

Ruth Thompson, the settlement vtyrker. engaged to Aines, is just a fe» rie of self-sacrificing woman. "The Straight Road" does not depend on its exciting scenes for its value There is much of the straight dramatic quality. Charlie Chaplin is represented in a screaming cartoon, and "The British Army in France," "One Plus Equals One," "The Othee Sister," and the "W«r Gazette," complete a first-class programme, t-