AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 306, 24 December 1914, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. * Last night this wonderful historical play was screened to a large audience. There is no doubting that it is a. great and most elaborate picture. The costumes are magnificent and the scenes throughout the entitre production are truly wonderful. The way Cleopatra fondles her pet animals, a lion and leopard, is remarkable. I'he best scenes are “the palace* of the Pharaohs,” the witch’s cave, Roman galleys crossing the sea, the long and silent march by night, the attack on the city by the Romans, Egypt defeated, the Queen’s remorse, death of Antony, testing the poisons, the deadly asp, the Queen applies the aps to her veins, death of Cleopatra. The battle scenes erivolve thousands of armored men. Those who have read Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra will enjoy this wonderful play. Only a few scenes are here described, and there are many others equally as strong and interesting. This famous picture will be screened for the last time to-night. Mr Will Diamond last night rendered that famous poem “The Day,” whic hwas very well received. THE AXEMEN’S CARNIVAL. When the axes are swinging and the chips are flying—that’s when it’s good to be alive. The way those axes bite their way into the heart of the timber is simply astonishing, and it must be seen to be believed.. These champion exponents of the science of wood-chopping carve a passage through an eighteen-inch log in a couple of minutes—a task that would occupy the townsman an hour or two. perhaps. The scene in the exemen’s ring during the big events beggars description, and there need lie no re. serrations in recommending Taranaki’s holiday-makers to spend Box* ing Day and 28th December at the Axemen’s Carnival, Eltham. There are excursion fares on the railways.