AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 79, 3 December 1913, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

"PIRATES OF PENZANCE." It is almost unnecessary to remind ) readers of the performance at the > Town Hall this evening of Gilbert and I Sullivan's ever-bright opera comique-," ''The Pirates of Penzance." The Stratford Operatic Society have spared no pains to make the presentation a success, and new performers have been added to the chor. and ballet, the latter of which has been made a | i special feature. Principals, chorus and I ? orchestra all are now highly fam-' ,; -r ! I with their work and they do it wn ' j | that snap and abandon which can <>ui exist when performers an. familiar j ( with their work and take a plewro I

in it. As on the previous occasion, I I the lights will be used with good effect. It is safe to predict that the J performance will be one which will re- 8 fleet the highest credit on the stage I manager, Mr Wilkie, and the condue- I tor, Mr Grubb. BARTON BROS. CIRCUS TO-NICHT 1 This big and poular en+erorise nr - •ived here this morning and parad 1 * \ o.the circus ground, where ihe l:u-■■•■ \ •anvas tents have beer .erected* wb ' | pens to-right. The parade tvas V nd- C ■d by the firm's band. The i for this evening includes a great'gal- J ixy of talent, and embraces nc. I urns, hitherto unattempted, in a cir- C if" in liief-... parts. The list of "star- jjj 'iifg-;' engagements is headed I-/ «' | 'ontjnental Waldorf trnispia, six in j g lumber, of white statue performer*. | ith limelight effects, direct from ,§" '"'iljis! circus. South Africa. Special j>' ■ngagainent of ihe fa<i>ous Ashton 1 \ Company, six beautiful lady acrobats i j nd gymnasts. Another star turn i,s ; | he Waliialla liro-., direct from the I English halls, English comedy aero-j | u;!s, musicians and iiat spinners. Miss ! f itiu'l Ashton. sensational fifing tra->e--ist."The Alton Trio, throe in ri'imi-j ier, of Chinese acrobats. Queens-! and Harry will ride celebrated out-! laws and will stake £25 to ride any j "lutlaw or buclfpjiriper in an English . hunting saddle. ■ of ''sts \ *o all oVher .riders is issued.. Funny Jj{fpp.v '\tho Jiea'ds 'flic, si}uftd ii .coftiedy clb.v.'us, is described 'as: a vim KB r %itt!cisitts ri& *f or 1 **Vtosivttryi ;radb performers, all specially engaged : ot> the present "tour; horses md ponies combine the equine department. 1

BERNARD'S PICTURES.

To-night at Bernard's Theatre a nost attractive holiday programme specially selected direct from Wllingon. The famous Solax dramatisation if the world-wide known story <; Dick Whittington and His Cat." This film is over 3000 ft. in length, and is not a >antomimc, but a sterling drama, introducing most life-like all the original fceixery and dresses of the bygone age, vhen Whittington turned at'the sdund of Bow Bells and became thrice Lord Mayor of London. The supporting films u*e of the best obtainable. Several dramas and scehics and comics embracing such well-known makers as "Edi;on," "Thanauser," "Patbo," "Keystone," and the latest Gaumont Graphic. The famous John Bunny is ;tated to bo at his best in the screamingly funny Vitograph comedy, "Seeing Double." "Forgive us our TresKisses," a highly sensational railroad Irama, runs ns Follows: Tho telegraph operator for many years had been a -'aithi'.ul employee of the railroad, but vvas discharged because be left his post "q go to the bedside of his dying child. several years later, a train despatcher nade a blunder which > ould hav* baused a collision. The :.p.r:ntendjnt instructed the man at tho othu* end of the wire to switch one of the trains on to a siding, but to his horrthe message came that his operator was drunk, and the man seeding t'e message was the discharged '..olegrapii>r, who had entered" the station, arl that he would do nothing to avert the threatened wreck. The superintendent i\as terror-stricken, more so because jiis wife aiuLdaugli'tn' werr*-oa one. of the trains. But the memories of happier days came' back to him, and he seemed to see his little daughter as she said 'her', prayer?, jahtt remembered the words:—"Forgive us bur trespasses," and many lives were saved because of the prayer of a little child.