AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 125, 19 July 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S. Last night the floor of His Majesty’s Theatre was well patronised by skaters, many of whom are becoming most proficient in cutting some of tho intricate figures peculiar to this pastime. To-night skating will again bo dulged in, but to-morrow night the weekly picture programme will be submitted, when, besides the excellent list of films to lie shown, someone who happens to occupy a particular seat will receive one guinea casii from the management. On Saturday afternoon there will ho a matinee, when the child who sits in the lucky scat will be rewarded with a large doll, which is now on view in the window of Mrs. McCallum’s. shop, Broadway. “BAD GIRL OF THE FAMILY.” At the Town Hall this evening, George Marlow’s Dramatic Company will appear with tho much-discussed melodrama, “The Bad Girl of the Family.” The piece abounds with sensationalism ; tho scenic effects are many and novel. The plot is stirring and original, and tho cast a very long one. “The Bad Girl” was staged in Australia for the first time in Adelaide, and from one of the morning dailies we extract the following:— “The play strikes the note on the keyboard of sensation. It runs on other than conventional linos, and there is one item that aroused the sympathy of every onlooker, and that was tho sweating that went on at a certain lashiouable dressmaking establishment and the starvation wages paid. The exposure. of such horrors is necessary to the well-being of tho community, and in no place can this be better done than the theatre. ‘The Bad Girl of the Family’ is not Ibsen nor Shaw, but it follows in the footsteps of those masters of realism, in teaching its audience a sound moral lesson.” The box plan on view at Grubb’s, where day sale tickets also may be secured.

WEST’S PICTURES. > West’s Pictures will submit the weekly change of programme at the Town Hall to-morrow evening. As usual, a fine selection of the newest films will bo screened, the chief attraction being “Glimpses of New Zealand,” an 800-foot film depicting scenery in the Dominion.