AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 9, 26 August 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. The programme initiated on Thursday evening, was repeated last night bqtdre an appreciative audience, and will be shown for the last time xonight. Un Monday evening an entirely new pibgramme will bo submitted. (Jn Tuesday there will be shown for the first time in Stratford the picture of' the Lang-Langford light, of which the “Now Zealand Herald” remarks: A, large audience watched the picture with continual interest. A uoxiug match in the newspapers is very dilffetefit from the same match in the ribg, and the same contest upon a oiiioniatugrapn screen dilicrs from both. Certainly the moving picture \ is, for' the entnusiast interested in a big light, likely to give a more faithful account of tne proceedings than the description of even a lively sporting scribe, whose eye and hand cannot follow the swift actions of the ring in every ‘detail. Thus the pictured ro- , colds of historic contests are of much attractiveness to that section of the

public who meet on the common ground of an admiration for what the French call “ze box.” Lang’s star was' not in the ascendant, and tile constant aggression of the stocky Lafigford,. a negro, with a chest and shtiulder development irresistibly suggestive of 'a gorilla, sent him many tiihes to the lloor. If the audience had |; cherished any doubts as to the disqualification ol Lang for striking his opponent when he was down, they whfe' completely dispelled, for in the sixth round, after sending Langford to the floor for the first time, ho very obviously struck the negro before he got up. NJSW PICTURES NEXT TUESDAY The Royal and Biograph Pictures, Mo. of Now Plymouth’s permanent entertainments have secured a lease of the Town Hall every Tuesday, and At ill open there on those nights, commencing Tuesday, August the ‘39th. Wheioita will be conducted an uniq ae pictorial entertainment of the highest artistic, educational, mirth-indue ng standard attainable. Every programme will consist of real and idealistic living pictures of wondrous charm, rare refinement, thrilling' alventure, and general educational worth, which will be supplied by ti e leading kinematograph studios of the Avorld," and culled from all darters of the universe.