AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 14, 17 May 1915, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

H.N3. THEATRE. The management annotince an exceptional bevy of photo-play subjects for to-night's screening. The leading subject is a liiibiii production, "The Chip of tlie Fast," a drama of plantation life in the cotton fields of Carolina, I'.S.A. The second feature is an Edison portrayal of an over-religioiis lady's mistake, which causes a lather's heart-break. "The Unopened Letter.'' 'I he Keystone Co. have a prominent comedy on the programme, "Stout Heart but Weak Knees," including all the funny men of this studio. Some great events take ph ■> in the latest "Australian dia'/ette," including the Australian Light Horse and the departure of South Australia * Expeditionary force. "The (jlima Troupe" is a clever vaudeville turn. Two laughable comedies are: 'A millinery Mix-up," and "Heating the Burglars."

WHO'S TllE LADY?" To-morrow night at the Town Hall, the famous "(Had Eye" Company will produce "Who's the Lady J*" which was written of by tile Herald (Adelaide) as "piuqaute." In that word there is only a partial description of "Who's the Lady:"' the remainder of the description may he summed up in two words —'•'irresistibly funny." "Who's the Lady" is mostly Ethel Dane, for in this comedy her powers are given lull scope. "Who's the Lady?" is I nun the I'Yench comedy, "Madame la !Vesidehte," by MM. Henniquin and Verher. Briefly, the theme is this:—

Augustidn Tricointe, a paragon, and president of the Court of Gvay, is, during the absence of his wile, made the subject of a trick by three of his fellow magistrates. Gobette, an actress, who is playing the lead in "The Duchess's Garter/' is induced to take up her lodging under his roof, and she enters into the spirit of the thing so far as to give him lessons in Hirting. The spectacle of the unwilling abandonment of the highly respectable lawyer to his "fate" is excellent comedy when the -Minister for .justice arrives, and in Ids general dilemma the president introduces Gobette as his wifej to her the Minister falls a victim, and in order to see more of her decides to promote Tricointo to a position nearer Paris. • So in Paris the authors place the next scene, where the .Minister confides in his secretary that he can love only one woman, and that woman is she whom he believes to be Madame Tricointe. The fun'becomes fast and furious. The real i Madame Tricointo, who is on a visit jto Paris, approaches the Minister,to j secure advancement for her husband, the Minister mistakes her identity for that of a polisher of brass, and thence ' on situations follow situations, all ap--1 parently resulting in such intensely funny complications that it is only at the finish the authors cleverly extiri cate and exculpate their well-sketched characters. The box plan is at Grubb's.'