AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 64, 7 July 1914, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD'S PICTURES. There was a largo audience last series of star pictures were screened. The leading drama is entitled "The

Woman Pays." The supporting pictures are all works of art. On Wednesday evening, the management will present one of the* finest motion pictures ever taken. It is an awe-inspir-ing representation of Lord Bulwei Lytton's Immortal Roman tragedy, "The Last Days of Pompeii." Glaucus is in love with lone. At the baths, are Clinthus, the Christian, Apecides, a priest of Isis, and the blind girl, Nydia. Nydia. innocently gives Glaucus a deadly potion, and Arbaces assassinates Apaecides, who had been converted to Christianity, and charges Glaucus with the crime. Nydia convinces Clodius of the innocence of Glaucus and of the gilt of Arbaces. Clinthus, the Christian, is condemned to enter the arena witli a tiger, whilst Claucus, armed with a stilus. is to combat witli a lion. While Claucus and Clinthus still faced the beasts in the arena, a vast vapor shot from Vesuvius, a lire that shifted and wavered every moment, now luminous, now dull and dying red. Tlie people felt the earth shako beneath their feet, and over everything fell an awful shower of fire. Each turned to flee, but darker and larger spread the cloud above them. So perished amongst others, the wise magician, the great Arbaces, the last of the royalty of Kgypt. Above ail was heard the voice of Clinthus, who was surrounded by Id's Christian friends. "The hour is come," he cried. It was caught up and echoed from side to side. The next morning. Glaucus and lone, guided by Nydia, the blind girl, sought the shore. lone slept on the breast of Glaucus, and Nydia lay at their feet. In the silence o; general sleep, NycTia bent over Glaucus and kissed his brow, and with her hair wiped from it the ocean damp. "May God bless you, Athenian," she said. "May you be happy with your loved one ; may you sometimes remember Nydia. Alas! She is no further use on earth." Witli these words she turned away. A sailor, half dozing on the deck, heard a splash, and imagined h(> saw a form above the waves, but it vanished in an instant. When the lovers awoke, their first thought was of each other, their next of Nydia. They guessed her fate in silence, and wept for her as for a departed sister.