AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 77, 1 December 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

BARTON BROS’. CIRCUS ON SHOW NIGHTS. Barton’s Circus will open Show night Wednesday, December 3rd, for two nights only. -The new artists will include the Ashton Company, comprising six young lady acrobats and gymnasts; the celebrated Waldrof troupe of eight pyramid performers, direct from Ellis’ Circus, South Africa; Miss Ethel Ashton, lady aerial artist; the Walkilla Brothers, comedy acrobats, musicians, and hat spinners; Miss Ruby Lamond, the human serpent; Miss Stella, the dashing hurdle rider; little Vera, fascinating young lady equestrienne; Master Lindsay, the phenomenal hand balancer ; the W islang brothers, three in number, elite acrobats, tumblers, gymnasts, and high leapers; Francis Roy - Barton, bareback rider; Flying Dunbars, Jack Tybell, king of hors© trainers; rot forgetting Happy Jackies, late of Bostock and Wombwell’s English circus, with his performing clogs and monkeys. The rough riding item of Queensland Harry, the Australian rough rider, is one of the notable features of the show. There are no less than 70 horses and ponies in the show, whilst the human element of arenic talent comprises 45 people.

BERNARD'S PICTURES. To-night’s new series is a forerunner of specially selected show-week pictures. The star feature, “Kelly of the Emerald Isle,” 3000 feet in length, is full of Irish wit" and sensations. Barney Gilmore, with his pleasing personality as Gerald Kelly, a rollicking, care-free Lrish lad, dominates this film completely and the result is very pleasing. Blanche Cornwall makes a very entrancing little Sheilah McGuire, Kelly’s sweetheart, while Joseph Levering is the villainous Doolin, Kelly’s would-be Nemesis. It is scary enough on the screen to suit everybody.

There are also the “Latest Eclair Journal,” “Race to New York” (Edison drama), and “Deer in Captivity” (Bathe’s educational). In regard to the last mentioned, it would seem that the deer is undoubtedly of European or Asiatic origin, and must have found its way to America by way of Behring Strait, when the two continents were connected. “Girl of the Water Spring” is a drama combining studies of natural scenery of great fieauty with a pretty love story and culminating in a scene of great dramatic power, in which the hero’s skill with the lassoo saves the heroine from being carried to death in the rapids. The supporting films include a host -of seenics and comics, headed by the A.B. screamer “Highbrow Love.” Performance commences at 8 sharp.