AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 84, 9 December 1913, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD’S PICTURES. Last night’s change of pictures before a fairly large audience proved to ,>e a nigh-class series. “I'ill Loath do us Part,” is a fine story full of emotion and grand military displays. ‘••While the %by Sleeps” (craihaj has a life-like plot, introducing Sells’ For-ponr-circus parade in America. 'J his magnificent parade of the world s oreatest collection of wild animals is one ot the finest educational pictures yet seen. here. To-morrow’s change will feature Napoleon Bonaparte, Marie Louise and Beatrice Dupriel, a heroine of romance. The resume of the plot is as follows: —For reasons of state, Napoleon finds it necessary to arrest the Count de Mauperg whom he thinks will embarass his operations during the Peninsular War. The Count is held as a hostage in the Royal Palace, \viiile driving through the streets, the Emperor’s wife sees a girl, Beatrice Dupriel, being illtreated, and takes her to the Palace to he trainedms a maid of honor. The girl is not used to the ways of the Count do Mauperg, who sympathises with her. In time, Beatrice loses all her strangeness and becomes popular, oven the Emperor suing for her favor. She treats everyone with indifference excepting the Count de Mauperg. The time comes for the Count to return

home, and he is allowed a passport by j Napoleon. On the eve of Ids departure j he receives a note commanding him • to slay the Emperor before leaving ! Paris. The note is intercepted by a j spy and taken to the Emperor, but Beatrice, realising 'the Count’s dan- | ger, kills the spy, dresses in his uniform and aids the Count to escape. ! .She leaves a note for Napoleon, in j which she says, “I have killed a rogue, , outwitted the Emperor, and won a 1 husband. Eorgive me, Sire.” The 1 I Emperor is not at all displeased that j the lovers are outside his jurisdiction. !