AMUSEMENTS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 20 December 1913, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

BERNARD'S PICTURES. Last night's cliange was well recoivod by a fairly large and enthusiastic audience. The Vitagraph star drama, "His Life for His Emperor" proved a magnificent portrayal of stirring incidents in Napoleon's life. "Our King's Navy" is undoubtedly the best picture yet taken of Britannia's bulwarks, which leads off with a round tirip of Nelson's famous ship, the Victory, and showing the whole of the fleet of Dreadnoughts, cruisers, battleships, and submarines. Monday's series will introduce a nerve-tingling drama by the Vitagraph Co., entitled "The Vampire of the Desert," which runs as follows: On the edge of the desert lives Hagar with .her son, Ishmael, and Lispeth, the Vampire, who plays upon the feelings of Ishmael, leading him on and driving him mad. Lispeth persuades William Corday, a wealthy banker, to take her away from the old hag, Hagar, who will not let her go until she'has been paid a ransom. In the beautiful home of the Cordays, Lispeth becomes a new being, and has .Corday entirely under her spell, but so clever is she that Mrs Corday has not the remotest suspicion of her husband: One day he beseeches Lispeth to fly with him, and is overheard by his son, Derrick who has silently entered. He denounces his father. Lispeth tells Derrick that lie has derstood what lie has heard, and it is lie, and not his father, whom she loves. She at last arranges to elope witli the elder man. As they are leaving the house, Derrick enters. Suddenly Ishmael appears, and taking Lispeth from the two wondering men lie forces her to return with him. Back again at her desert home, the Vampire throws herself down despondently upon the ground. Ishmael, still raging, approaches her, but she pushes him back. In a burst of maniacal fury, he kills her.