AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 80, 1 November 1916, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

FOLEY'S PICTURES. BIG SCENES IX "THE COWARD." At His Majesty's Theatre to-night, a film in which thousands of men and horses are vividly seen on the battlefield will be screened, and is entitled "The Coward." At the outbreak of the war a recruiting station is opened in the Virginia village where the Winslows live, but Frank, obsessed with fear, enlists only after his father has threatened to kill him if he refuses. The first night on picket duty the boy deserts and returns home. His father, in shame and humiliation, takes his place in the ranksi. Frank hides in the garret when a Union force raids the village, and overhears several Northern officers discuss a weak point in their line. Fear departing, he holds them up and gets the plans. Then follows a thrilling ride to the Confederate camp. As he dashes across a bridge, his father, on picket, shoots, and horse and rider tumble into the swift current. The boy reaches shore, however, and with a knowledge of the enemy's weakness phc Southern troops win a great victory. Colonel, now private, Winsiow is summoned to headquarters, and when he learns that his son made the victory possible, the stirring drama ends with their reconciliation. A good war graphic and others complete a first-class programme.