AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 22, 18 May 1914, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD'S PICTURES. To-night's programme will introduce the great drama of "The Church Mission and the World," shewing the farreaching effects of the church amidst the vast workings of a city. "The Fly Leaf of Fate," a drama, runs as follows:—Ralph Cummings was engaged to Hilda Hawthorne, hut he couldn't afford to marry. Meanwhile Greorge Blake, a rich banker, falls in love with Hihla, and tired of waiting, she marries him. Cummings is bitterly disappointed, but he pledges himself to lie always true to his lost sweetheart. He meets Mary Sharpe, the daughter of the proprietor of a book shop, who falls in love with him. Finding an old school book of Hilda's with her name on the flyleaf, he buys it. Not long after, he hears that she is a widow. Hope reviving, he•goes to see her, but she only laughs at him. mocking at his poverty, he goes back to the book store, there to find the girl who loves him still faithful. Then he knows he .loves Mary, and that she is better thai) any, other woman, and they are married The comedy element is headed by France's great comedian, "Wiffles aid the Widow."