AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1914, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S PICTURES. To-night’s new programme to be presented at His Majesty’s will mark an epoch in picturedom, the management having been lucky in securing such a star feature film as “The Battle of Waterloo.” The famous battle was undoubtedly the saviour of England. The characters of Napoleon and Wellington are a perfect portrayal of the ipiginals, while the scenes were acted ipon the battlefield itself.' To-morrow evening will see the last of this famous film. . >

On Friday next the only official picTire of “Scott’s Dash to the Pole” will ie screened. It is a memorable film ind historical record filmed on the spo + by the eminent photographic expert, Ur Herbert C. Pouting, F.R.C.S., vho accompanied the expedition. The British Antarctic Expedition, under daptain - Scott, R.X., left London in June, 1910. It was the greatest scieniific enterprise ever sent out of England, and this magnificent jkiuegram >s worthy of its subject. The late Capt. Scott, R.X., and his noble com-

rades who gave up their lives midst the frozen wastes of the cruel Antarctic in the search for knowledge in the cause of science, wrote their names on the scroll of fame in letters of gold, md enrolled themselves in the foremost rank of British heroes. A noble record of noble deeds done by noble men, faithfully depicting the noble results achieved. They reached the Polo on 17th January, 1919. They gave their lives to the cause of science, and this grand pictorial .shows! part of the legacy to the nations left behind them.