AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 61, 13 March 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S PICTURES.

Last night's pictures at Bernard's Theatre were highly appreciated, being among the most sensible productions seen in Stratford. The prdfes- • sional orchestra, headed by Mr Ohas. Rogers and Mr Syd. Bernard, shines ." brightly even in a programme winch • must be- acknowledged as u treat. Tonight, Pathe's famous colored Biblical drama, "The Life of Christ," will be one of the special attractions. "The Latest Pathe-Gazette," "The Curse of the Golden Land," is a most sensational •Vitagraph dramagraph. The local picture of New Zealand, "Strike ." scenes in Wellington snoull bo very interesting. The Kalem Co. are well represented in a drama entitled "The Atheist." Burton Harris does not believe in religion. The minister i£'i. reproves him, and Burton, in anger, '&' leaves for the city, where he can ' 1 please himself. He becomes a great gambler. He receives a letter from his mother requesting him to return, before she dies. He ,goes, but it is too late. Overcome with remorse, he decides to earn an honest living and secures a position at a stone quarry near by. Promotion comes rapidly, and with it as time passes, a wife and daughter. While at the quarries one day, an* explosion occurs, simultaneously with a message-telling him that ' .his daughter is dying. Torn 'twixt love \nd duty, he knows not what. to do. Falling oh his knees he cries to Hea--f ven, "God: Save my child—give me strength," and rushes to help his men. ■ On arriving home, he finds his prayer has been" answered. , Considering that Bernard's pictures are now running into their fourth ~; , year of continuous showing, Madame Bernard invites all of her picture patrons, to roll up on Monday evening, when she will greet one and alb with a complimentary programme of the latest pictures. TOWN HALL PICTURES. The star film of an exceptionally good programme to be screened at the Town Hall to-night is "The -Dream," a thrilling drama of 3000 ft. -;,. No one should miss this beautiful and powerful representation. The chief .laughter-raiser is the Vitagraph Com- . .pany's "Everybody's Doin' It," which is well calculated to arouse the mosvfc. morbid to a state of exhPurntion. All the supporting items are good and ?-" are of the usual varied nature, while being well selected and pleasing. The • music supplied is popular, and well played, materially the entertainment. The star reel "Crime on the Coast" was mailed this morning to Auckland, where it will be shown in MeMahon's Picture Theatre. STATISTICS OF A PIANIST. Harold Whittle, the well-known pianist, who is now touring with Paul r Dufault. has a scientific turn of mind, «| and has been employing it recently figuring out the mathematic side of

his work. "I wonder>" says Mr Whit- ; tie, "if anyone realises just how much ' physical exercise is employed in the art of accompanying. For instance, there are possibly eighteen numbers on the printed programme for the Dufault Company. .These, with the extra numbers, easily become twentyeight. During the performance of. these twenty-eight ( ifumbers, on an average I leave the piano, and walk to the back of the stage, say t»enty times during the evening. On the ordinary stage the walk back and i j forth to the instrument is usually " about eleven yards. Multiply these eleven yards by twenty and you have two hundred and twenty yards, or an

eighth* of a mile, which I have traver-

sed in view of the audience.. Mr •i Whittle has also been computing the number of concerts at which he has J . played during regular concert tours. ' The first item is a big one, as Mr t . ' Whittle figures out that, previously to ■'.' 1907, his appearances with John Lemmone, the noted flautist, total 750 concerts. In the year 1907, Mr Whittle player 50 concerts during the Melba tour; in 1908, the indefatigable

pianist appeared at 69 concerts with

Ada Crossley; in 1909, 100 more con- ? certs during another Melba tour, were N added; in 1910. 40 concerts with the si redoubtable Mme. Calve; in 1911, 85 ■I with Ben Davies; in 1912, with Countjsf ess de Cisneos, another 40 concerts '\ were added to the schedule, thus iriak. f ing a total of one thousand and eighty. four concerts at which Mr Whittle has played during the last six years. Mr Whittle has already to his credit in 1914, 45 concerts with Paul Dufault, as that is the number given by the' French-Canadian tenor, since the New Year. * ..