AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 13, 31 August 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

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Last rflgHt'the first of this week’s programme was given l for the last time at His Majesty’s Theatre. To-night a new programme will be submitted. - A good selection of dramatic pictures will be shown, and a special, feature of the evening’s entertainment will be two finely-coloured scenic films—“ Glimpses of Pisa” and “Amongst the Parsoes of Bombay.” “The New Stenographer is the chief comic picture, and is said to be more than ordinarily funny. The usual ‘ matinee will be held on Saturday.

' WEST’S PICTURES. The advent of three distinct picture shows in Stratford is causing mild excitement, especially amonn tne Juveniles. It is no unusual thing just now to hear a group of boys discussing the merits of the various enterprise’s, bets being freely made—the amount does not matter—to emphasise choice. Be this as It may, the picture business is going strong, che Town Hall being: again well patronised last night, when the programme was one of all-round excellence. “Beautiful Japan” was a highly entertaining as well as instructive scenic number, the several views shown in the film drawing from the audience exclamations of surprise that anything so naturaT could he reproduced on canvass. There were several interesting dramatic films, including “Pals of ILL. Range” and “Star o? Salem Town,' ’ while the comics were not to be denied. Surf bathing on Manly Beach, Sydney, was a very live film, not only as regards the bathers, but likewise the surf, the size of the breakers being enough to scare the timid. It would hardly be safe to bathe in such a sea on an ebbing tide. There will he a complete change of programme on Wednesday next. “TRIAL BY JURY.” It will be noted with considerable interest by the majority of our readers, at any rate in the town of Stratford and its immediate neighbourhood, that Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, “Trial by Jury,” is to be staged in the Town Hall on Wednesday, September 20th, under the conduotorship of Mrr T. G. Grubb. The entertainment should be a specially good one, as a full chorus, in all some fifty voices, assisted by the Stratford Orchestral Society, will produce this noted piece. The test of the entertainment will be of a specially pleasing nature. As the whole of the proceeds are to be handed to the Boy Scouts in aid. of their gymnasium fund, apart from the actual merits of the performance, there should be a very big attendance and wide patronage.