AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 27, 2 October 1913, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

MINSTRELS' TO-NICHT. A good evening’s entertainment is promised at the Town Hall to-night, when a minstrel performance is to be given by the Waitara combination known as Sunflower Minstrels. There are twenty-four performers in the company, and the items include songs, stories, and sketches, humorous “coons” being a good deal in evidence. In keeping with the traditions of the minstrel show the performance will be concluded with a farce, which is entitled “Fun in an Insurance Office.”

BERNARD’S PICTURES. To-night a change of all-star pictures will he screened at the popular theatre. The feature film, “Till Death do us Part,” a heart-appealing drama bythe new Pilot Co., is a most interesting plot and should stir the depths of every soul. “The Pawned Bracelet” is a superb scenario by the famous Lubin Co. Latest English Gazette, introducing the world’s doings by the latest photography. “Pilgrimage to the Crimea,” a celebrated travel scenic by Pathe, depicting the famous battlefields that have been handed down in history; it is one of the scenics that make a person think of the great trials of the British soldiers in the days gone by. “Hadji,” the up-side down man, is a remarkable vaudeville picture. Hadji, while in an inverted position on a table, eats his dinner, takes a drink in quite indescribable fashion, lights a cigarette, not by means of a match, but from a candle stuck on his heel, and does other things so complicated that a diagram would be needed to demonstrate them. The comic element is headed by a Vitagraph screamer, “He was Mad.” To-morrow (Friday)'evening, Dan McSweeney, the quaint Irish comic singer, will make his initial bow. As the management state, Mac. is just loaded with everything of the funniest. The little man with the big voice will appear Friday only.

“THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE.”

There was a full-dress rehearsal of “The Pirates of Penzance” at the Town Hall last night, and tke piece was gone through in a manner which augurs well fpr the two performances next week'.. The ballet, by i twelve young ladies, was gone through nicely, and the costumes of chorus and principals made an imposing A : gentleman of considerable theatrical experience who was privileged, to see' thp rehearjspjl. (expressed, the opinion that the performance was a?-good as any he had seen performed by amateurs iii Stpa,tfprd. Jn the, character •of Ruth, Mjisfv jGreenhqlgh phowed .herself to bo almost up to professional standard, and another fine performer was Mrs Massey in the character, of Mabel, her singing being highly sympathetic. A special feature has been made of the policemen’s chorus, which was gone through with much spirit, Swan proving hiuiself ! 'the righ,lj man in .the right place; Another rehearsal will bo hold to-morrow evening. ' :i

Tho box plan opens' at Grubb’s tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock'.