AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 143, 9 August 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

WEST’S PICTURES. With two sxicli pictures as Tree’s fine production of Shakespeare’s ‘•Henry VIII” and a really impressive photo-play of Charles Dickons’ story, “A Tale of Two Cities,’ ’shown the same evening, the programme at the Town Hall this evening must he accounted one of the most excellent yet shown here. “Henry VIH” is a picture that should he seen by all playgoers, as it gives a capital idea of the stage appearance and methods of London players heard of every day, and by all students of Shakespeare, inasmuch as it represents most graphically the enormous advances which nave been made of late years in the presentation of the Bard of Avon’s immortal works. “A Tale of Two Cities” is admirably depicted by the Vitagraph ✓Company. The story is traversed very closoly, and with a commendable attention to detail. The. first part deals with the villainy of the Marquis of Evrcinond, and the incarceration in the Bastille at his instance of Dr. Manet to, and the second includes Lucy Manette’s love affair with Charles Darnay (the Marquis’ nephew), the arrest of the latter as an aristocrat in Paris in the days of the Revolution, and finally Sydney Carton’s great sacrifice in substituting himself for Darnay whilst the tumbrils are even on their way to convey the latter to the guillotine. Tho presentation of such pictures should inculcate a taste for good literature.