AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 41, 24 June 1913, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S PICTURES. Last night'* large audience were fairly |-carried, away with the usual change of picture**, at Bernard's, the new programme nieeting with great approval. From an educational poinit or | view, "Swimming'' is a film that everybody should see. depicting as it doep, Beaumont,,the world's greatest Professor in. an ~art( that a\\ should learnl The picture is very clear, ha.V' ing been iaken a glass tauk by a Stereoscopic camera, and stands for up-to-date education. "Monkeys aftd, a SAake.s,'-' a,.beautiful coloured liirri, hrihgs to mind the Darwinian theory that monkeys knowmore than they are given credit for. Tho dramas are well nigh perfect, while the cohlic portion is ail that could be demanded. The management announce that, illustrated will •be commenced 6 on Thursday evening when, Mr ■ W# EfSfflffpd .wiffitalßO'tlW [boards >afismsßfotm 10 TMkl POLITE VAUDEVILLE. |Mr Vmceut M."Beehe's celebrated .company of Vaudeville and Minstrel Stars will appear at the Town Hall on Saturday night. , , ~., The company^-consists of 16 performers, and is claimed to he the strongest in point of numbers and general excellence of any. similar organisation that has toured Australasia in recent years.

Mr Dan Kielderson, the protean actor, impersonator, ventriloquist and mimic, is the only member oi" the company who has previously appeared in New Zaiand, and as he has hut returned to the colonies after an absence of several years in England with an entirely new act called "the one man music hall," evry item and artist on the long programme can Lf said to be new to the Dominion.

Artists in the present company all possess established internationalizeputations, and include, in addition tc Mr Kielderson, the Rollicking Rockleys, clever sketch artist© and producers; Miss Rubee Raymond, a charming American toe dancer; Miss Ella Conrad, soprano and Miss Ruby Cox, contralto, operatic vocalists; the Acrobatic Artens lady and gontlemen acrobats imported from England by Mr Beebe; Mr Will White, probably the greatest of living coon singers and dancers; the Musical Bartletts who combine humour with harmony, and play every musical instrument from a mouth organ to a set of musical motor car horns; Messrs Spilker and Fairbank, comedians who know how to amuse without being vulgar, and Miss Edie Leeder, a dainty little serio and dancer.

The prices of pdmission are 3s and 2s, and reserved seats may be booked at GrubVs without extra charge.

SKATING CARNIVAL TO-NIGHT

There was a rather better attendance of skaters ao the. Town Hall last night than there was on Saturday night, and those present spent a very pleasant time.

To-night & grand fancy dress carnival will be held, and ample amusement is promised for skaters and spectators alike Skaters from Hawera and New Plymouth will be pre sent, and a varied and interesting array of fancy costumes can be looked for. Prizes have ben provided for thf following dresses:—Best fancy dress (lady), best fancy dress (gent.), best fancy dres? (girl), best fancy dress (boy), best (lady) poster, best (gent.) poster. Three races will be decided: One mile championship of Taranaki 440yds raco for boys under 14, and {* thread the needle race.