AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 77, 3 April 1915, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE.

To-night’s programme includes a big feature detective play of mystery, “The Woman with lied Hair.” It is claimed that one cannot view this tense photo-play without shivering with excitement, and realising to the full that crime cannot succeed. The latest war picture shows General Beyers, the traitor, reviewing British troops in Africa, also many scenes, direct from the war zone. A humorous Keystone Comedy, “Those Country Kids,” and “John Bunny in t Disguise” make up the laugh element. Other pictures are “Toledo” (Spain), scenic, and “A Dog’s Good Deed,” a clever comic drama. On Easter Monday night an entirely new programme will bo screened, the feature play, “Out of the Depths, a thrilling submarine story. Other line subjects are: “Where the Mountains Meet” (drama), “He Loved the Ladies” (Keystone comedy), “Happy-go-Lucky” (drama), “Such a Mess” (comedy), and “The Latest War Gazette.” Although this programme is a special one, the management state 'that the prices will remain the same. WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE, Professor Clement Wragge delivered on Thursday night in the Foresters Hall an* extremely interesting loture, which was listened to by a large and attentive audience. The lecturer has a happy sense of humour, and ho explained with great lucidity, the wonders of the universe. In opening his remarks, Professor Wragge alluded to the element radium, pointed out its wonderful properties, and said that radio-active water, taken as a medicine, would prolong life, whilst cancer in its early stages could he stepped. Speaking of the stars, the lecturer said they were suns which had been hurled from parent suns. Those which shone with a white light were voung, while those with a red light were old. The time would come when our sun would shine with a rod light. In speaking of his forecasts of the seasons, the lecturer said he did not claim to ho infallible. His theory was that the spots on the sun, which were in reality huge storms, had a great influence on the seasons, and also, to a certain extent, induced volcanic disturbances. Professor Wragge, after quoting previous forecasts, gave forecasts up to the year 1930. These. | which apply more particularly, to Ausj tralia, were: 1915, imui’oviue; 1916,20 good: 1921-1922 falling-nil’; 1923i 1924 had drought; 1925-1920 improving; 1927-1930 good seasons. Some very fine photographs of the moon, 1 taken at great observatories, were shown. At the conclusion of the be■.tore, the audience were shown a sain pie of radium. I The- lecture will be giveu at Midhirst to-uight. \