AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 40, 3 October 1914, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

BERNARD'S PICTURES. The programme presented at His Majesty's .Theatre last night featured an exciting naval battle photoplay, '/file Naval Spy." Jt is a story of the American-Mexican, war, and thrilled the audience from start to finish. A most sensational scene is a battle between the M.U.S. Dewer and the battle cruiser Dengozo. The final chase is very exciting. The supporting pictures are of a jugn standard. A beautiful picture is "Lakes of the Pyreiines" (France) a superb colored scenic. "A Sandstone Quarry" is very interesting. The Bathe Gazette contains all the latest news. "The Delayed Special" is a touching drama. ''His Comrade's Wife" is a story dealing with' the Zulu war, and the acting is fine. In tiie comedies, John Bunny plays ill "Bunny's Mistake," and Ruscoe Arbuckle plays in "A Rural Demon." GILCHRIST'S PICTORIAL LECTURES.

On Wednesday, Thursday, • Friday and Saturday of next week, pictorial lectures will be held in His Majesty's Theatre. Mr John Gilchrist willgive his lectures on Nature Study, Travel, Astronomy, and The Shaping of the Earth. These lectures, which have delighted thousands of boys aiK; girls in the colleges and schools of our Dominion, are not only interesting to young minds, but make a great appeal to the minds of adults, bj reason of the simplicity of the ex planations given of scientific questions. The lectures are all brilliantly illustrated by a theatre cinematograph and lauetrn. The fixtures of the season have been so arranged to give adults the opportunity to attend those lectures that will appeal to most of them, namely, Astronomy and Travel, which will be given on Thursday and Saturday afternoons. The lecturer is not only a good speaker, but is a practical student of the subjects he treats His testimonials include very fine recommendations from the Auckland. Wellington, Dunedin, Ohrishchurch. Invercargill and Nelson colleges, and high schools, from the training colleges of Auckland and Wellington, and from most of the primary schools of the Dominion. Mr Gilchrist has been at this work-in the schools for fh*» past_j.une yooi's. and" alßmgiven popular lectures on sciem the general public in the prm cities.