AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 47, 20 February 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. There was a splendid house at Ber nard’s last night, when an excelleir programme of exceptional merit wai presented. This week : the “star’ drama is “The Conversion of St. An thony,” one of the most remarkabl films yet screened at the local show The first scene shows Yarba, a ven beautiful woman, displaying a fiendis.’ temper by ordering a slave to be flog ged for some petty offence. In th next she is in the midst of a drunkei orgy, of the sort for which the Ro mans, in the latter stages of their ex istenco, were famous. The slave, seek ing vengeance, informs her master Anthony, of the unfaithfulness o' Yarba. He finds her with her lover ii the garden. Anthony, pursuing th< wrecker of his domestic happiness would have killed the man, but hi. hand is stayed by the leader of a band of Christians. These, Anthony joins, and thus began one of the mcs remarkable conversions recorded. L the later scenes Yarba ,herself, per ceives the error of her ways, and casting away her jewels, throws her self at the foot of the cross, outside the cave, wherein dwells the man once Anthony the Patrician, but thei Anthony the Hermit, and now St. An thony. The outstanding features o: the film are the soft and subdued colours of the picture. There is no flick er, and the whole presents a triu.npl in picture acting and cinematogra.pl production. The supporting dramas wore of tin usual high standard, notably a filir “Told in the Sierras.” This picture is acted, or at least, the majority oj it, in heavy snow, and is a line dramatic representation of a good story. Pathe Gazette No. 143, and “Mushroom Growing” were also good numbers. There was nothing wrong with tin comics, the “Wrong Patient” being i screamer of the first water. To-night the same series will bo screened again.