AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 87, 11 April 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE.' Visitors to His Majesty’s Theatre yesterday evening had an opportunity of viewing an excellent and .yy.elLafcsorted number of kinematograph pictures, including : that very fipq- stqr film, “Auld Lang Syne,” undpr «*- ' ceptionally favourable conditions. 1 Madam Bernard has just completed the installation of a new 'and type of machine for producing kinemaj tograph pictures. This machine' is a Wcstinghouse motor-generator, with a Gaumont projector, and produces tl|o pictures by direct current instead of alternating current, as was previously the case. The effect of this is that the light is much improved, being of a pure white colour, throwing the picture on the screen with remarkable clearness of detail and obviating any blurring, which is sometimes noticed in moving pictures. There is no noticeable flickering with this machine, a very welcome addition to the comfort of picture theatre goers, Madam Bernard is to be congratulated on her enterprise in studying the comfort and needs of her patrons in the way she has done. It is stated that-,Stratford is the first town north of Wellington to have moving pictures produced by a direct current machine. . Thcso now appliances will enable the management to stage this evening, with full effect, that wonderful two-reel star film, entitled “She.” This film was 1 produced by the Tbanhousor'Company, i and is admittedly a wonderful picture drama. No doubt many readers are acquainted with Rider Haggard’s celebrated book entitled “She.” The film follows the book closely. The opening pictures portray Kallikrates, the priest of Isis, who falls in love with lA.mcnartas, the daughter of Pharob. The couple elope and flee to the centre of Africa, whore they meet “She” (Ayesha), who falls in love with KaJlikrates. The wonderful story winds on and comes down, to the nine-: tecntli century, when “She” meets her awe-inspiring fate in the deep caverns of the earth. The opportunity of seeing this and the other star films to be produced to-night should not be missed. There will be a. matinee on Saturday.