AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 55, 26 June 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD'S PICTUREB. The star feature picture at the new series to ■be presented, at Bernard's to-night is a famous Blache wild animal drama, entitled, "A Prisoner in the Harem." It is very realistic. Pathe's latest Gazette, and a host of other-star pictures are headed by Vitagraph's "Two Aristocratic Penitents." The De Forests, happily married and wealthy, attend the opera, and there De Forest becomes infatuated with Violet, a charming, dancer, who is the rage of the hour. With the handsome young millionaire the popular dancer %o to a fashionable restaurant for supper. A week later Helen De Forest sees a story about the'supper in "The Wasp" and is heart-broen. She confides in Thomas Dryden, who suggests that she takes up classical dancing since this appears what is attracting her husband. Helen, with a veil drawn over her face, appears in the opera and makes a great hit. As she is retiring, bowing to the applause, she raises her veil, and reveals her identity. De Forest is astounded and hurt. When De Forest is told that his wife is at the restaurant, he bursts into the dining room and confronts the couple. Dryden tells him the truth, and De Forest realises the baseness of his conduct, and promises never to see the artful Violet again.

SKATING IN THE TOWN HALL.

"Did you ever go roller skating with the love that you adore?" So runs an old song with a catching lilt. Whether the gentle reader ever did, or did not, matters, because an opportunity is to be given to renew the pleasing pastime or make good with the sonsation, as the case may be. The Town Hall is to be opened for skating on Monday afternoon, and thereafter every afternoon, from 2 o'clock until 5, patrons will be able to indulge in the pastime to their hearts' content. Under the patronage of Mr Syd Bernard the public can be sure of attention and civility, but the point to be remembered is that skates will not be supplied by the management. At the modest charge of sixpence for a floor like the Town Hall, it will be a cheap afternoon's fun.