AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 39, 21 June 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S PICTURES. Something of a novelty will bo presented at His Majesty’s Theatre on Monday evening in “Face to Face with a Leopard,” in which the fierce mother love of a wild animal, a leopard, for her cub, is contrasted with the love affairs of a human couple. Though the audience is naturally rejoiced at the happy conclusion of the latter, there is more than one pang of pity for the brute parent, which, robbed of its child, makes such desperate efforts to win it back. Against this, for a time, the lover’s battles seem weak and selfish, and at the close of the subject there is rightly shown the fine head of the monster feline as she crouches on her rocky ledge, beaiten and bruised in the combat, and deprived of her offspring. There is an exquisite touch of poignant grief in thifh The film is full of stirring episodes, and ah appropriate love story runs' through it. Another • excellent drama is “From the Regions of Darkness,” a Pasquali “star.” The usual fine selection of comic and scenic films will also be shown. “PUSS IN BOOTS.” Each succeeding pantomime staged by the J. C. Williamson Ltd. Management seems to out-shine its predecessor, and now we are informed that “Puss in Boots” which is to be staged at the Town Hall, Eltham, on Tuesday, July Bth, eclipses all previous efforts in the direction of spectacular effects, ballet®, marches, and general excellence. Specially attractive is the music composed by Andrew MacCunn, and the musical side of the pantomime is also noted for the inclusion of some ■of the biggest song successes of the year, many of which will feature the all-pervading “Ragtime,” or “hustle music” at present the craze. No previous pantomime has contained so many novelties and attractions of the standard included in “Puss in Boots.” The two act® of sixteen sconces embody a gorgeous procession of brilliant features. Owing to the brevity of the New Zealand tour, only the one performance can be given in Eltham. In order to give playgoers of Stratford an opportunity of witnessing the Eltham production, the management have arranged for a special train to leave Stratford on Tuesday, July Bth, at 6.40 p.m., and leaving Eltham on the return journey at 11.20 p.m. The box plan will be opened at Carman’s on Saturday, July sth.

SKATING TO-NIGHT

It is now some time since skaters in Stratford wore catered for by a local rink, and there.should therefore 1)0 a big attendance at the Town Hall this evening, when the hall will be available for general skating. On Monday evening next the Hall will again bo open for general skating, and on the following evening a grand carnival will be held, in which over thirty visiting skaters in fancy dress will participate. Six prizes have been provided for dresses, and three races are set down for decision.