AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 10, 22 December 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S PICTURES

' Robinson Crusoe arrived at His Majesty’s Theatre last night, bung ing Friday and the savages along with him. The film deserves all The good tilings that have been sai l about it, and the large audience gave it a warm welcome. Everybody has read the storv, and has mentally pic.urcd Crusoe, dressed in skins, living on his lonely island. But Crusoe in tinflesh, rescuing Friday from the cannibals, and saving the lives of the pean fishers, is a better scene than the imagination can supply. _ Faithful m every detail, the picture is a most realistic one, and well worth seeing. Ihe star film was well supported by a number of exceptionally good pictures. Max Linder is caught learning the gentle art of “ski-mg, and Ins tumbles in the heavy snow were productive of much laughter. A new colour process made a splendid picture of “Winter Flowers,” the natural tints being obtained with good effect. Three dramas were given. Space will not permit of a detailed account ol them*, but it is sufficient to say that they are as good, if not better, than any Bernard’s have 1 shown to Stratford audiences. A word of praise is due to the “Wooing of Winifred, a comedy film acted by two favouiuc American artists, which . introduced some remarkably clever scenes. To-night the same programme will be screened, and on Saturday afternoon the management are giving a special matinee to enable the children to see Robinson Crusoe and bis good man Friday.