AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 79, 29 March 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

FASOLA. Any entertainment savouring of the magical and mysterious holds a peculiar fascination for most people, both young and old. This has been exemplified on countless occasions. In our youth we looked with awe on the conjuror who deceived us with the old trick of boiling a pudding in a good silk hat, and then returned the,hat unharmed to its owner. Later on we were impressed with cabinet illusions, and it was thought that the acme of the illusion business had been attained. Not so, however; It is claimed that the great Fa sol a begins where others have left off. He brings with him the mysticisms of the East. He presents all the marvellous illusions of the mysterious Hiffdu, and his performance is marked by perfect and easy accomplishment altogether free from effort. All that is visible about Fasola’s method is the firing of a gun, and the result is the sudden appearance of things animate and material where a second previously blank space prevailed. Included in the company supporting the great Fasola are the Windsor Choristers. This remarkably tuneful juvenile quartette have created a great impression wherever they have appeared, and highly eulogistic notices have followed each performance. Their singing is said to he one of the features of the entertainment. The rest of the company are all artists of me? it., specially selected hy John Fuller acid Sons. Fasola appears at the Stratford Town Hall next Tuesday. HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. A very fair attendance was Die order of the big change at His Majesty’s Theatre last night, when an excellent programme was submitted. The comics cjre of the IjQst, the laughter-raising plots being beyond expectation, “Too Many Burglars ’ Thing the particular star in this portion of the programme. It is a film that would raise -a-laugh’from -■ even..,a. coroner or a weary politician. “Scenes in the Isle of Man ’ is a

(lilt, of exceptional beauty. “Through the Torrents,” a new photo play, deals with a telegraph operator, his sweetheart and ler .tßpn.i*gi*e* iinptjser.j er,'i Pacific Express dashing to ctrcain destruction caused by washouts on the line, is most exciting, when the girl and her lover board a iailway pggei, brave the floods, andvstop tee e- press just n the ricx of line. Shi .s rewarded by saving Imr soape-o-t.icj i i ether from the hands of the law and also death “Over Niagara in a Barrel” is the groat picture that it was represented to be, the foolhardy act ending safely. “The Diamond Gang,” “The .Gipsy,” and all the other portions of the programme are also good. i ; The programme will be repeated this evening and on Saturday for the last time.