AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 144, 10 August 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. The weekly change of programme was submitted at His Majesty’s Theatre last night, and appeared to meet with general approval Owing to delay in delivery it was impossible to show the star film “The Fall of Troy,” hut it was promised that it would be screened to-night. Chief among the dramas was “Dido Forsaken by Aenea.s,” a long film dealing With the love affair of the Carthaginian queen and the Greek soldier, ending with the flight Iry sea of Aeneas and burning of Dido in her

palace. “A Thanksgiving Surprise” was a simple but poignant tale of useful waywardness. “Three Sisters” and “When a Man Loves” wore more properly what are described as comedy dramas, the lighter vein in the last-named picture being especially in evidence. Tho comic section was well up to standard. “The Tramp Cyclist” depicts the hilarious doings of a gentleman who runs amok on a bicycle; “Queen for a Day” gives a romance of a suddenly enriched cook; “When Tilly’s Uncle Flirted” deals with the doings of two “terrible infants” ; and “Three ■ Men and a Maid” demonstrates in entertaining fashion tho well-known statement

that though tho course of true love never runs straight, tho wedding bells stage is always reached somehow or other. A picture well worth -.oeing is “A Trio of Acrobats,” in which some marvellous feats are shown. i The programme will bo repeated this evening. BAYLY SCHOLARSHIP BENEFIT. The proceeds of the performance at His Majesty’s Theatre this evening will be devoted to the funds of the Bayly Memorial Scholarship. _ The Scholarship is a matter which appeals to all classes in Taranaki, and the fact, combined with the fact that the programme is an excellent one, should ensure a bumper house tonight. WEST’S PICTURES. West’s Pictures drew a good attendance at the Town Hall last night, when the programme submitted was one of all-round merit, hut two films especially were truly kinematograph wonders—“ The Lilies” and “A , Tale of Two. Cities,” tho latter hoifig a photo-play of Charles Dickons’ interesting and thrilling story, mainly of incidents connected with the French Revolution, in which the Bastille, the infuriated mob, and the guillotine, take a prominent place, and were vividly dcihcted on tho screen. Next Wednesday pictures of the Coronation will he screened, the length of the film being 3000 feet. In the afternoon a matinee will bo held for children.