AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 302, 19 December 1914, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S'THEATRE. A programme is now showing at Bernard’s involving travel, scenic, drama, comedy and educational, which young and old will appreciate. After the orchestra plays a striking overture, patrons are introduced to the latest, number of the “Gaumont Graphic,” which shows events from all the world over, j Then comes a splendid drama intitled “In the Days of Slavery,” the story of a*, girl’s Jove for her black servant, introducing pretty scenes on hoard an old Swanee river steamboat. Following these is a canine study, “Pups on the Rampage,” “A Wild Sea and Stormy Sunset” explains itself. There is hardly sufficient time for laughter at Kaystone’s comedy, “Mabel’s Married Life,” when the interval arrives. In the second part are shown beautiful scenes in Holland and a. pathetic drama intitled “A Tragedy of the Clouds.”

ELTHAM’S GRAND CARNIVAL.

Just £9O in cash, a gold medal, and a valuable cup, for shopping through two logs! With a prize like that to work for, one can understand that the axemen are “all in.” It’s a magnificent sight. Ten or fifteen giants of the chopping world, muscles outstanding. yet pliant, their bodies lithe and subtle, axes ground and sharpened until they present a razor-like edge, awaiting the word “go.” And then the sharp blows and the tearing of great gaps in the logs, the faster blows as the axes bite their way to the centre, the stentorian yells of the supporters, then “lie’s round,” as each completes his first scarf, and commences the second wedge-like opening from the hack ; faster, faster axes flashing in the sunlight. .breaths coming in whistling gaps; the top of the log trembles, so docs another; then one last blow, and the first rog is severed ; tin' winner grasps the hand of his principal harrioker, and as often as not falls prone to the ground, exhausted by the almost superhuman effort. Yes, it’s a grand sight, and one to be remembered. Get a thrill. Attend the Axemen’s Carnival aUEltham

on Boxing Day and the following Monday, and learn what real enjoyment is.

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