AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 23, 19 May 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD’S PICTURES. i.-

[_ it i-’: me v; . >.k <• i;i A fairly larger *nd •enthusiastic audience greeted last'night’s ndw series of pictures:at Bernard-s 'theatre. . The star film entitled “The Open Door” is about the most sensible drama that has Been/produced by the management for some time. The , story deals with the underworld and . the church mission. Every inch of i the picture is a great lesson. The music supplied by Van Heck’s orchestra is specially and. . played with a sun. The comic ele- ’ meat is well cjiteijed for., by Hons. Prince in the ql.ever> French comedy, “Wiffies and the... Merry Widow.” To-morrow evening’s- jipw’ series in r trglluces for the first time in Tara- > naki the latest ;Vitagraph drama, entitled “God Remembers When the World Forgets?’ The story runs a s follows; .Jin/.- I After severely the first- p*ay by Robert Burton, the critic of the “Evening Times,”-John Hears, goes to the country- to get back his failing health. He had "just heard that his uncle has loft him a largo legacy on condition that he does not marry before he is thirty-five. One day he meets a pretty girl, picking daisies in the fields, and after a time wins her love. Before he leaves for the city, he gets ,the girl, Viola Martin, to promise to follow him to the city, and meet him there, promising to marry her. Hears puts off the wedding again and again, until, at last, after five years, Viola realises that he no longer loves her. She leaves him and starts back for her country home. .She drops of exhaustion in the very field where they first met. She writes a farewell note to Hears, recounting the history of their meeting in the form of a beautiful poem. Overcome by her grief, she .sinks lifeless among the pretty daisies that she had loved so well. A sheet of paper on which she has written is blown away by the wind and reaches Robert Burton, who is seeking inspiration for a new play. He discovers her body in the field, • and finds the rest of her manuscript, never suspecting that the villain who had wronged her was John Hears. Upon the verses written by the dying Viola, Burton bases his new play, i which is a tremendous success. When Hears sees it he recognises the story to be that of the much-wronged Viola. Overcome by remorse, he goes home, leaving another to write the eulogy , of Burton’s triumph.