WEST’S PICTURES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 141, 7 August 1911, Page 5

WEST’S PICTURES.

In tho programme to be presented at tho Town Hall on Wednesday, pride of place must be given to a kiuematographie reproduction of Dickens’s famous story, “A Tale of Two Cities.” Many of the leading incidents of this well-known story, to say nothing of glimpses of Paris during the days of the Revolution, are splendidly portrayed. “A Tale of Two Cities” centres round the person of Dr. Manette, who is incarcerated in tho Bastille by the' order of a French marquis, and has his homo broken up. His infant daughter becomes the ward of a wellknown London banker, and, when she is about eighteen years of age, she learns that her father is still alive. She has him conveyed to England, and, while crossing the Channel, she becomes acquainted with Charles Darnay, nephew of the man responsible for her father’s imprisonment. They are but shortly married, when Darney leaves for Paris, then in the throes of tho French Revolution. While there lie is recognised as an aristocrat, and ordered to be executed. The climax of the plot comes when Sydney Carton, a dissohito young lawyer, sacrifices himself in place of Darnay—a situation with which readers of the book are sufficiently acquainted. This is a magnificent picture, the acting and mounting especially being features. The storming of tho Bastille, tho misery of tho peasants, Sydney Carton’s heroic sacrifice, tho imprisonment of D> - . Mavette, and scones in Paris are a few of the incidents.