AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 100, 30 December 1913, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD'S PICTURES. I pictures inot with great ■litlnwasm from, n crowded audience, flie star feature drain* (Ivanhoe) proved to be a magnificent film, in .\'iich close on 3000 performers took part in the magnificent battle scenes, i::d mA'st sensational hand to hand and iv. prd v. lance encounters. "The'Shadow of he Law" is an up-to-date American biograph drama. The .same programme,will be repeated this evening.

Wednesday's change, direct from Wellington, includes a famous Parisian colpretl drama l>,v Pathe, entitled "A Fair Saint," the scenario of which runs as follows:—Barousse and .his wife are serfs in the "Seigneurie" of tiie Comte de Mafsac! Barousso. driven hy desperation, steels a lamb and'is seized hy the shepherds, and condemned hy the Comte to he hanged. The Comtesse, however, intercedes alid hegs for his life.. The Comte orders him to ho released, hut on condition that anyone! giving him assistance is to he hanged. Lady Blanche at her prayers sees a vision in which she is bidden to sell her jewels to buy bread for the poor, and in spite" of the Comte's sentence, her tnerciful heart leads her to succour. Barousse. It is at his house thai the Comte finds her. Jlagin, he tears open her apron, in which she is carrying the "bread, hut there, instead of loaves"are roses, roses, loses, and all kneel down in adoration of the miracle.