AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 30, 27 May 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD’S PICTURES. ‘•The Bridge of Terror,” a drama by bathe players, will be the leading ture picture at Bernard’s Theatre this evening. The story is a thrilling and life-like study of a scheming architect pertaining to the erection of a much needed bridge. The latest Gaumnut Graphic and a host of the best possible pictures, including Lubin’s, Edison’s, and a Yitagraph ?omedy, once mere introducing “John Bunny, Flora Finch and Lillian Walker. The story runs as follows: The Smiths and the Craigs, next door neighbours, are the best of friends. Their chidren, Helen and Tom, are in love with one another: Nellie Smith and Sydney Craig, the youngest in the two families, get into trouble over aotne chickens and their parents fall out over it. A fence is erected bet tween their two gardens, separating them, while the parents each forbid their respective children to hold intercourse with their neighbours’ “brats.” Helen and Tom return from college ibout the same time and are much surnrised at seeing the fence. They geti ladders and kiss one another over the garden wall. Their parents catch them, and warfare is actively renewed, "orrents of abuse passing from one side of the fence to the other. One day while looking over the wall and busing Craig, missed his footing and 'oils into Craig’s garden. A fight oon ensues between the two husbands, ■id their wives. Tom upsets Craig’s loehives and the result is that they r.ve to seek refuge in the barn. Tom ocks the door on them and refuses to A them out unless they will consent o bis marriage with Helen. A sight ■ncident in the barn serves to bring ibout a reconciliation between the ■wo families, and they joyfully agree o Tom’s proposal. They emerge beaming, and at once set about pulling down the fence that has caused so much trouble between them.