AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 61, 15 March 1915, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

KIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. To-night a special budget of plays will be screened. The star is a Keystone comedy, featuring Mabel Normand and the Keystone comedians. This is classed as one of the company’s best productions* and is said to be very humorous from start to finish. A line drama by the Vitagraph Co. is “The Crime of Cain.” “The Geisha” is a oig Oriental drama with magnificent icenery and good photographic •qualifies. Olio latest I’athc Gazette is lull .if war scenes. Two intoxicating comedies arc “That Jack of Diamonds” md “Love and Flowers.” Next Wednesday and Thursday a big drama, in which Little Mary plays chief part, will bo screened, is entitled, “Tess of die Storm Country,” a story of the mountain wilds. NEW ZEALAND AND CULTURE. One of Mr Edie’s epistles, published in the Auckland daily papers, says:— “The time is perhaps propitious, whilst the ‘culture’ of various nations ’is under discussion, to give an impulse, to the refining influence of this country. Possibly there are many people who don’t care a rap about culture, but this is only because they do not understand what it stands for. No person can possibly be a patriot unless he is prepared to do all in his power to stimulate and develope national culture for it is only by culture that progress is made possible. The inlustries, the crafts, the army, the iavy, and every kind of organisation ii enriched by the nation’s culture. What are the means whereby culture is attained? Art, music, religion, and intellectual pursuits. Either of these bodies of knowledge when promulgated assists in refining the minds of people. Refinement is Culture. The refined mind can respond much more quickly to the complex propositions which are to bo daily met with in all walks of life. The cultured mind lias a keen mental perception which is denied the coarse mind. Music is probably the greatest quickenor of the mind and the shortest cut to culture, for its inspiration is a power that is simply wonderful in its refining influences. Now it stands to reason, that everyone who has the well-being of this country at heart should do everything to encourage the developoient of music. A groat opportunity Is at hand, let us grasp'it. Leo, Jan, and Mischel Cherniavsky, the brilliant young violinist, pianist and ’cellist, will bo amongst us shortly. Lot every parent make it possible for the children to hear the artists and above all let every adult make an effort to lie present at a Cherniavsky concert and bask in the refining influence of their wonderful music.” These artists appear boro on Saturday, March _>oth. Patrons are advised to write to Grubb’s for scats at once.