AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 74, 23 March 1912, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. - T - • A During the year that Madame Bernard has been running her picture, enterprise in Stratford, she has given two benefits. One was in aid of. the ~ local hospital and was expensively patronised. 1 Last night the Eire, Brigade were the recipients of similar treat- j ment by the management, thought not by the public. In fact ,the audience was, if Anything, smaller than.the_ usual; Friday night crowd. .In addition,, the management had;gone' to. considerable expense in providing two special N , films, one a drama called “The Fire Chief’s Daughter,” and the other a Now Zealand film showing the disastrous Terrace fire in Wellington. The.... latter is. a very good film in parts, hut , has been taken by an operator who was not apparently entirely conversant with his business. A very thrilling little drama is the one which shows the trials of the daughter of the man who controls the big American fire brigade. The ; girl - determines to marry the man she lovts, : but in doing so alienates her people’s affections. Her husband, however, is one of the brigade ,and when a fire, breaks out in the old man’s home, he is conspicuous by rescuing his wife’s mother. Needless *to say that finishes the story. A very fine scene is the one in which the brigade, with-its ■ • ■ half-dozen engines, rattles out to the fire. The current programme is a good one, conspicuous for the ramarkably good scenic showing the king of all falls—Niagara, and the Horseshoe Falls, which latter appear to be liner from the cinematograph point of view. This picture should not be missed, as it eclipses anything of the kind yet screened. Tontolini is shown in a good laughter-raiser, in which some cyclists damage their machines, and perform some remarkable gymnastic feats. At the conclusion of the entertainment last night Mr. Rowson, on behalf of the brigade, thanked those who had attended, and expressed his gratitude to Madame Bernard for her generosity. ' ■ >■; To-night the same bill will be given with the exception that the Terrace film goes elsewhere. On Monday evening a good change is on the cards, the star drama being “At Jones’s Ferry,” and another good picture is “By Aid of the Lariat.’