AMUSEMENTS.
BERNARD'S PICTURES. • ' i,. ; ;| Km S ' ■ , , ’ ■■! The new programme of pictures to ’ ( be screened this evening is, an all-star feature series. The leading drama . , ‘.‘The Witness of the Will,” is an exciting : and gripping story., i‘ ‘A', Greed j / for Gold” is acted by Edison’s able performers. “Latest Warwick Chronicle,” “Scenes in Upper Egypt,” “A Treacherous Rival,” >■ and ■ a host of comics headed by “Sink’s Beard, “Measure of a Man,” is a Lubin Wesern Railroad drama. . Sandy, a derelict. drifts into a Western camp look- > i.ng for a job. Bradley, a shift bos?, brutally’assaults him and Mathew?, the superintendent, ivitnessing the ' affair, discharges, Bradley. The boss then sets the Mexican laborers '/ 1 ’ against Sandy. They also assaulted ' him and leave him unconscious, for ' which act they are all discharged. A large pay roll is to he delivered at 1 the carrip, and Bradley and his gang plan to seize the camp and steal the- ./ money. Sandy seizes a hydraulic nozzle used for excavating, and with ' a fearful force of water keeps - the ( mob hack until a force of men sur- ■ round 1 the Mexicans. Wednesday next T). I. Froman’s famous playqrs.' . will present “Tlie Prisoner,.of Zen- ,'v da,” the story of a man Avho was a king, and a king who was a man. ' ' “THE ROSARY.” ; “The Rosary,” which is to be presented to Stratford theatregoers on Wednesday at the Town Hall, isi a t;'V play that is universal in its theme and makes its appeal to every class of theatre patron. The author claims'?,;.' to have succeeded in. bringing about , : situations that are interesting; inf a , play that is clean and wholesdnie, -.fall £t $ of action; dramatic "surprises, tender .pathos, amusing, lines, and delightful humor. To tllet parti|?;;i; of Fatlier Kelly, a genial whole-soul-ed," laughterdoving, kindly, priest in «, “The Rosary,” Mr Hairington Rey- ; ".j nolds brings the. physical and’mental.;. q qualifications that made him adapted to the part—an expressive face, a dignified bearing,.and.a fine voice. v The f) bhx plans are now filling at Grubb’s,,, and intending patrons should secure (i (S their seats immediately. No .extra charge is being made for booking. ,-, v
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 93, 10 August 1914, Page 4
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