AMUSEMENTS.
'it, iio(r; *n'j( kv- -I----i . ~/.(■,? (•> ,i; - - , ' )l Bernard’s Pictures. ? i;-i liimm 1 , • \i v.V •' 1 ' 1! . ' " The 1 at 1 Be rh ard ’s f 'Tlfdfi trfe s '• jas'trh i sit' ’pro vied i decided,.success! 'The star feature.’ “Two 'Spies,” introduces some realistic war scenes in tli© •'Balkans. “Scenes of Other‘ Days” i"s .a son scenic drama. An hid chrifederat e sharp-shooter who w ( as rescued and '•anted to the northern lines in 1 fhh battle’ of Piedmont;Heights, ■s:How§ ] hffe'j gratitudei when }>is /forifteP ifelVdfMtHr is escorts hifmtid talliStlre' prineipa‘l of intercat. 'city'.’, “Th ! e ! Lost Comhiinatibja’d} '(dc’arhtt), hj )! 'Th’A lrihauser hast a i plot-.', 4 ‘Strange |:Sehi. CreaturS* ''is cT 'tip-fop Pat he educationalfilrh. C !V'; To-mofrow-. evening entiijely'.'jieiv
scries will bp, screened;' wlien the Yitagraph. entitled *‘His Life for His .Eihperor’’ will be.Kered'rifed for thol'first' ; 'titae;i ; ' !:t ' ; of certain English rnerclvfmtE find politicians 1 WjMre.;^hat’}tlfet: s Ein“ : ' ; ' peror Xapoledn”beHinisedt'edj' whet|Kh‘ i by' fair’mans or foul. Hearing qf exCaptain 'Ladrdix, ’ iidio : tlias ''been , graded by Napoleon, they sehd 'an emissary to arrange with him ’for' the Emperor’s . assassination. The ’ plot, is hatched in the secluded''corner of a - wine shop,- but‘the conspirators do not notice* an'intoxicated .man,, \vho . .iff sleeping 'there. The man is Pierre Duchesne, an official, who ,has bo.en.i discharged from a Government bureau for drunkenness, hut_-whOj f ,knowing.; that’ he bps "only Jnhis'elf' to.blame, • hoai;s ho .'malice. ! Lacroix' writes a letter 'to ' ’Napoleon, teeing him' ‘that valuable papers'hiay‘he obtained from ■ ,a disgraced ’English ‘ hfheiar jin' Pmris.'' Duchesne plMds‘Hvftiw to allow him to go in his htehd 'for 'the plans, disguised to ,resemble Ins .soy.-., ereign. .He dogs ' so, .and vNupoleon : orders that a band of'soldiers shall follow liim and ensure his;’safety. ,Puchesne .enters the 1 hoiVse; ’ and is killed as he enters, before the soldiers can’ come to,his jp,<L. who has followed 'the .soldiers; kneels and' kifcses body reverently, as it is laid 4 li'p’an' the : divan.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 92, 18 December 1913, Page 2
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321AMUSEMENTS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 92, 18 December 1913, Page 2
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