AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 56, 30 October 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

SPEAKING PICTURES. A fair audience greeted the megaphone speaking pictures shown at the Town Hall on Monday, when a fine! collection of comic and dramatic films were screened, featuring many popular actors of the cinematographic art. A powerful megaphone, by some means, synchronized with the, cinematograph, and the novel sensation was experienced of actually hearing the song sung by the picture ac- j tor. The performance is all the morel interesting in that it undoubtedly is ■ the first step towards the goal, which 1 will no doubt be ultimately attained— 1 the converting of a diimb-show into a perfect representation of a theatrical show, combining seeing with hearing. The pictures shown last night were of a; very high standard, free from flicker, and admirably projected. HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. The great boat race in which Richard Arnst was beaten for the world’s championship by Ernest Barry, the English oarsman, will be screened at Bernard’s Pictures to-morrow evening, along with a complete change of all-star.films. Outstanding features of the picture are its remarkable clearness, and the admirable presentation it makes of the famous race. Patrons will be able to judge for themselves the correctness of the written reports of the race, and form their own ideas as to why Arnst lost. Among sentimental heart stories perhaps none is more widely known than that told in the poem by John Townsend Trowbridge, of “The Vagabonds.” A wandering violinist enters a bar-room, followed by his canine companion, Roger. He entertains the company with Roger’s tricks, and relates his story. The story of the vagabond violinist tolls of “a dear girl’s love,” and of how the “wine went round,” and of the blasted home and broken _ heart that followed his taking to drink. He relates how, years after, when a wanderer, he saw her. and how she little dreamed he had kissed the coin she had dropped to him. Ho finishes his story by picturing the after scenes of h'l» v 'vagabond life with Roger as his companion. The scenes depicted by the film are pronounced the best work of the producer, so absorbingly dramatic and intensely true to life does the story run. This picture most ably supplements the poet’s conception of his theme, and is one that will please the most fastidious audience.