AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 28, 26 September 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD'S 1 -PHOTO I MYS

The film of tlio L Taxanaki Circular Cycle Road Race will be one of til* most interesting items to bo'shown His Majesty's Theatre-to-nylit. hip picture includes views, of Mount Egmont, the committee,'the Bmanm . Challenge Cup, getting, ready for tho start,' limit men depart on tho long journey, the ton to as .h-. scratch men thq rucec..-urEe, awaiting ' the i»t|(«i, ', mo\qr cycle race, sensational spills}, tho winner (T. C: Collins), fastest time (N Wadham). Iff addition to the local film, a complete new programme wilt bo shown. A 3000-fboter is "Flower 01 the Mormon City/' and., as the titlphase of life that is at present occupy ing the attention of public and poli ticians alike. The picture deals wit), those times in Utah when the elders of the Mormon Church had the lives o\ their followers 'in their hands. Ali that is long passed away, but it provides materia*! for a stirring and interesting drama. Other films are. "Historical Warwickshire" (scenic) "When Kings were the Law" (dram;.), "Wonkoy's Wager" (comic), '•Potter of the Nile". 1 (scenic and industrial) "How States are Made" (drama) "Helen's Marriage" (comedy), Gaumnnt Graphic (topical), and "Goati\.n Child Stealer" (comic). Matinee on Saturday, 1 at 2.30.

THE J. C. WILLIAMSON PANTOMIME.

"SINBAD THE SAILOR."

Writes the critic of the "Austrakir sian" of the J. C. Williamson Pantomime "Srnbad the Sad ol '/' to be presented here on Saturday next,, at 7.45. The modern plan in making pantomime is to have managerial eyes and agents ranging over the world for a year or so in search of "effects." These are supplemented as in "Sinbad the Sail or" with pictures from the painting loft that have a glow in colours harmonising with the exuberant spirit o" the theme. Perhaps a score of artistic designers in different parts of the earth have devoted their talents to the creation of costumes in which, if there be coupled something of the original and tho unexpected with a. note of daring that is not too adventurous so much the better. A clever ballet mistress reduces the mass cf colonmd costume to rhythmical motion, in dance and march. The choice of Sinbad the Sailor is a good one for a subject, because it offers in scenery and costumes much variety of selection from land and sea. In the present production Messrs. Upward and C* leranr. have given the true Oriental glow to the scenes and settings which carry on the story and couple up the real marvels of tho pantomime. Amdngsi bhese are the 'Diamond Valley, with a rtost wonderful serpent, winding its length between Crags and ponies. Tho yealth of the fabled "Diamond Val.ey is displayed in a cascade of jewels, an indescribable beautiful effect in it.se'f made further perfect with a Diamond Ballet. There is no time to wonder ai the moment how it is nil achieved. I ut one is there lost in admiration. The 'lose Ballet appropriately set in a Persian Garden, for there roses were first born, is a bewitching feature. There are marches, too, of silver guards, Nubian guards, dances of f'air•es, and most captivating of all, a Flying Ballet; in which clarity coryphees, like Ariel, flit _ the footlights, md soar over the auditorium scntter'ug posies among the astonished pat•ons. jSinbad's Christmas party firings .he amazing panorama to a close—iv°n managerial adjectives are justified—one can say no more.