AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 42, 20 October 1913, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

"MILESTONES." .! •; j an' attractive 1 drama touching the life and political*and; com-, iueroial—of members of on© (family, during three generations,.. Ajid the I Williamsoii/ Comedy Co., with 1 the p o fin I a (■ ‘ j ii 1 i u s Knight fit the head, ‘ imaged the‘piece rit’ f the Town Hall, Stratford, on Saturday night, will be long remd^b^rhd' by' local .theatreas ’ sßmethfrig riritirely new to 1 > t¥i'em. f Itfhlis ii double theme, as someone put it,‘thb difference between the generations alrid the difference youth and age. I' It'is a charming j play that WieanS something,' and it is .no woh'dei’, then,' that it has become v .huT : bn- ,■ ■ ■ popular, , , , .. ~,:. , * They were sedate folk in 1860, when | tfie play begins, 11 “Nita, Juanita,” ! t and “She Wore a Wreath of Roses,,” the orchestra discourses, are 1 strange to ears crazed with j “rag- | time”—strange, but pleasaht, They had' anti-macassars on their f| chairs, and the-anti-macassars stayed there. Girls moved and spoke deinurolk with broad flounced dresses and their hair in ringlets. But men were mot ,s p different, (gpdd.ohnjßJiead lias the progressive.spirit. He, breaks up his partnership -j with. ■ (Samuel rSibley to build .y’gp slyips, a, pew (invention ip which jlojP Rhepd.has. confidence,, but . which, older; ofiimor© experience, Expect (ironjafjiips to float! One might .as IwelU oxppoi. that m.OU would' %; in )the air.' i John 1 defies coij- > Tservatism,. > amE wrests 3»se ; atm* hispwafe, ■ despitel (the > antagonism of htn parents. :y‘>She his 1 sweet arid 'passives with no will Of -Keif but proud ?td Jie.'Johflls. ‘hdat'e-’’ after he hair ; ptri^std’to her’ in a fifteen min* titf& speech—the mid-Victorian woman. Gertrude Rhead is a "new wbher 'time. Slip gives back his engagement ring to Sam Sibley, because he will not let |her argue with him. .'■■■• ■; ; Act 2, five and twenty yearp later, and the age of “bustles,” sees John Rhead prosperous, expectant of a baronetcy; fiercely,contemptuous of a new of stteel ships,, ' is a ypung ,raan,* to jexploit. steel apcl w.snjter lofi the; hand of. John daughtei EmiV- (formal .proposals have gemc out of f|j { . sixion.,,, nrid engaged, ■ . §ibl#yi feast married aifiew jsorf of . ikinghrtft typist#—shrtM hut jvul^ ; ,iHe idba.oftrpbbnn tyjr^fW;, .jprams,!; John* Rhbad virtually. cprp r ,, jirparwisifew and marry a‘ fool ofuthatWtiiliityj: E(j«d . : jo«tmplieri,3 Respite « the remonstrances of fWriruCte’ wfeo fearh a worse calamity than her own. 1 After all, Preece is ndt only a. faddist; , it appears he is’ a r -Socialist. Word of ■-horror! The mother 'is- still passive. ■She has gentle ridicule for the jnstsfllation- of-»“hot water Aei-vic«* ill .the 1 ihomdfmob »bw H .noiiow; ori , > ; i c Acti'Mf^.'ld 1 «*Hbfr irdife* dl’cheSt(4l announced by : $46-c is ,ii lo.vt- '{ l'w ith git 4 • ■%*} ”holbblb,’' ?t|frdwfi hei t hldgrs, har ,; ’bn'^i'blribfi’s'surfi'ii'gO,' ’|i>d kmnv> iiiofe ; a^t)T [ h’e 1 proceedings of ■ tlife 11 HodSe ]iltan her bVoilier; whd is°h sc{?Jlfeg[/|pce,apprii'ng 1 jnember ' of it. .j ding is being Celebrated, stil] wants W rule his children’s'’children , with the ton .of .-iron his.pwn rpspected, and they, defy, him. v Eyen, his meek wife, ‘ a‘''frail, old> lady, is inspired - to make the first protest of lief life against exthe master of ! a Ixpusfvjjfild. , ; Arthnc- ? be ; comes the mediator. His |.)fßt lover now \a 4 and ,-free tq V preyaiE man tab let hjs gr;mf]idp,lighter , marry, Richard. Sibley J and go with him to Canada,' where ; ncjv rl hJ i e^ < ,run,;A’iot. ,;i it •’ . by . the flr young people; but the end#.;,with i Johil * , by the ( fireside;. ,‘‘We says | Tjhf the Company was entirely satisfactory to the, large audiph#/' w|ip o hnweyLens must have Jmeni! ponajtlerably reduced owing tc , , the (wretched wet, weather. The coh ditiony int.th© ex>-ening could fiardly * . have l;>een fi'orse j so bad was St, in 1 fact,.,tha|s; even, some of the bookec' seats J were unoccupied. Those present did not fail to realise to the full ; the r merit ■ of the t performance, and • tipplaus© wms unstinted-in? the variout. inking incidents. Mr Julius Knight was excellent,v throughout! as John I Rhead, but particularly as the qnonil bus olddfnrin:whojf conwicefed the,world is going to the>,devil because, it ie not going ns It' did'; wfebri lie was a young j mam. , : .^l|ie%^|| > |hyi as ; Mrs Rhead, was’w.pleatfiiik not j ..iaione becauHW'. shi»' iield< + tO ' the j mid- ( VietorihEltbilyoritions. , -j, As .’Gertrude; Rhetati.. 'Grace Noble j ' fiU®o!°her 'part splendidly, and j her ] acting was one of the best features of r ■fthe-'evening-rf/jMiss* .Iren© Browne, as l Elrrify /Rhead/’ and f afforwards Lady Monkhurst, acquitted; hbrfeelf as -did also 1 Miss Dorothy Cumlnmg, as fhb 2pth .cent.ury 7 ; »rid Miss Temple as the ex-typisto who i» spirit- -j r «r’'iind amusing without being over- t Mr Arthur Greenaway, as Sam Sibley, Mr Leslie Victor as Lord Monkhurst, were admirable in their j respective situations; The other j parts were well filled. The music,' fur- . nishings and dresses were well de- . ifjgned to bring out the contrasts of the x'ixtio'us pbnods. AltogOthfr it . ! 'Mhy‘WWated in conclixsioh that it is

likely to be some time before. Sfrattord w® fiafseeing a play • with such strong appealing powers. cajole .bauds as the J.C.W. jc^^angr r noxv presenting, it. V' ! 1 BERIYA ICTU RES. “ To-night’S change of -pirtuiVs at Bernard’s include sofn'e of the latest, and greatest makes, both ia dramatic, scenic, educational and 'comedy ; films. The star * featurb dra ma, “Sarpd thy Wire.”’ is' V the great - Gaumnrj ..Co., and the plot. is.highly sensational and true to life. -Picture lovers will know the Gaum,ont fix like tbrongb their .splendid educatibnal pictures and the famous gazettes which are.always np-.to-date, so sptrietjring; great tuny be; ’expected iix .their' new tindertaking of .dramatic art. “The; Wanderer,” is bn A. B. select scenario soino.what in the nature of a poetical fantasy and r-may he 'construed as the : hpeC^ator pluses-. ~ It is'll to story of a wanderer who prefer- to seek tbropgfi bis ,flute- thb Spirit of ianddt. -ttmi he -tnay give it biif 'in'to'the; wotld as be pass,ed thjjougjb his .journeys and pxperi t fmcey in life and tbnearth a hettcr ’and n'fairor place, lie | pt-efers this to 'tlie’porpettui, si rife, for } gain. “Calnmitv Anne’s Trust” is ai flying poippdy, “Kyoto ’aTathte Colored sconih, “X.Z. Animat-j ed News No. h," h topical ‘VWitb TTu-j man. Instincts.” a' B and-T. drama, | ..and ! < j'Re!uctiint : ■CinflbreHn,” am Edison ■<»omedy. The last is ext -a: good. | .-A' pintphing slitioer. removed under the! din iter, gets a debutante j into all sortr of eaubarassing .predicamentfSibefore’ si 1«-fin ally recovers itfrom:obofof the. men. She conceals beg ftlipperlcss foot Until be lots a , mouse .loose i-i.the. r.eoin. That is too much. -1 Will Diamond will app ar ; riptiye..s.o-n,g,.scenas. everv. evening. I)rcs,s.<fii:e:hi: Ladies Is. Gents Is ed. . ' < • ' »f ; T .. .., .J, -■« ' * * .fc. ..* I ■ *