AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 124, 18 July 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

WEST’S PICTURES. West’s famous pictures will again bo shown at the Town Hail, Stratford, on Thursday evening nest, when an entirely new programme v. ill be submitted, including a very fine him eight hundred feet long, entitled “Glimpses of New Zealand.’’ CORONATION RINK. A fair number of replies were received in connection with the guessing competition at the Coronation Skating Rink. On Saturday evening the prize being secured by Miss Heciiey, who guessed the correct number (23). The Rink will not he open for skating until Thursday afternoon, the hall being engaged for dancing. “THE BAD GIRL OF THE FAMILY.” To-morrow evening at' the Town Hall, Stratford, Mr GeorgeMilarlow’s Dramatic Company will produce Frederick Melville’s drama, “The ■iad Girl of the Family.” Everything that can possibly be written about this production has been done, and a short resume of the play will give a good idea of the plot of the piece. The Moores are described as reduced gentlefolk. Bess (the bad girl) is keeping the family going, partly by working, but principally by borrowing money at ruinous interest from Barney Gordon, who, by some means has obtained proprietary interests in the firm of Berery and Robinson, where both Bess and her unpleasant sister Honor are employed. The villain, Harry Gordon, who is much given to the use of improper language, has professed love to both girls in turn, and has deserted them in order to make love to Gladys Erskine, who repulses him with scorn, preferring her sailor sweetheart to the rich young Jew. However, the haughty earl is so" much in the elder Gordon’s clutches that he lends himself to his ambitious designs, and but that Bess impersonated Gladys, tlie union would take place. During an altercation with Lieutenant M arsh at the dead of night the earl is shot by a burglar, who had come to steal the wedding presents. Of course the sailor is charged with the deed. He is condemned, to death, and Gladys marries him on the night before the hanging is to take place. However , with the burglar, ho escapes in a cart, the supervision of the warders being extremely lax, and the play ends haopilv. The box plan and day sale tickets are now available at Grubb’s Music Warehouse.