AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 4, 22 August 1914, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD’S PICTURES. The new , programme 'df pictures last evening was a grgat success. The star Pathe drama, ‘ TxxftMid Atlantic,” is a sensational 'story. “The Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, 1914” is the greatest race ever taken by a moving picture camera. Monday next, Gaumont will be represented by their latest drama, “The Tex-rible Alternative,” a powerful 1 play of intrigue in Turr key. Hassan Bey incurred the en|mity of the “Banner of Allklx” Society, axxd his death ip decided upon; Two members are chosen 1 to carry out the sentence, but, warned, in time', Hassan flies. A. year later in Parisj Maud Lang,. a journalist, receives a letter from her sister saying she is retuiuxiixg fx’om the Near East, Mauo has fallen in love with a foreigner whom she knows as Juan, but who ife really Hassan. When her sister Helen arrives, she becomes suspicious of her, fearing she has become mixed up with a republican party in Turkey. One evening she sees Helen make the acquaintaxxce of Hassan and inveigle him into accompanying her home. Maud gets there first and falls ixxto the hands of the plotters. Hassan arrives and believes Maud is concerned. Just then the police, arrive, and arrest ; th|pßsassnxs. A‘few weeks inter Maxi! and Hassan are married, while Helen has had quite;enough of Eastcrix ; fpolitidß. J