AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 14 August 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. i Last week's programme was finally screened on Saturday before an appreciative audience. The theatre will be available to skaters this evening. The, chief feature of Wednesday’s change of programme will be the star picture “A Royal Divorce.” ■ The picture commences with three very characteristic episodes in the life of Bonaparte. There is first that telling incident in which by losing a game of chess with a noted clerical expert ho grants the liberty of a young officer belonging to the enemy’s ranks. There is also.' an illustration of how the plot which resulted in the “return from Elba” was nearly frustrated. Napoleon is next seen in a noble light on the occasion of his defence of a heroic Spaniard, opposed to his own forces, when, after one of Napoleon’s officers breaks tho laws of chivalry in ill-treating the man’s wife, the Spaniard is arrested for flooring the blackguard. The chief incidents in Bonaparte's life are graphically depicted, and all the scenes are arranged with great attention to detail. “A Royal Divorce” will be shown for one night only. WEST’S PICTURES. West’s Picture programme on Wednesday evening next will include three thousand feet of the Coronation pageant. In this with a happy facility for estimating tho ’ most favourable points of vantage, the kinemagographers have succeeded in obtaining a most attractive and instructive seines of views at various parts of the route of., tjie Coronation procession. There is first of all tho procession of clergy to Westminster Abbey, bearing the regalia, then the audience is taken out into the streets of London, where the royal procession, a magnificent pageant, is witnessed by immense crowds. The Royal Horse Guards, superbly mounted, the Yeomen of tho* Guard (tho “Beef-eaters”), the European monarchs, Indian princes, and illustrious personages make an imposing prelude to the advent of the ouaint old-fashioned State coach, drawn by eight horses, in which is seated the King and Queen. An impressive incident is the enthusiasm of the people all along the route, the passing of the State coach being the occasion of a great fluttering of handkerchiefs. As part of the Coronation series was shown a church parade of the oversea contingents, en route to St. Paul’s Cathedral. The remainder of the programme is full of interest ami variety. The management has generously decided to givd>w a matinee performance at 4 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon to which all school children will be admitted free of charge.