AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 53, 8 February 1916, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

“NEPTUNE’S DAUGHTER.” Tho groat photo-play, “Neptune s Daughter,” featuring the famous “Diving Venus” Miss Annette Keliorman, will be screened for one night only in Stratford, on Thursday next, February 10th. at His Majesty’s Theatre. The film is 8,-100 feet in length, and is described as “a thrilling fantasy of the mysterious deep.” An idea of the magnificence of the production may Ih> gauged from the fact that the cost of the film was over £40,000. Tho film was taken amid the coral reefs and submarine grottos of the Bermuda Islands, where the (wonderful transparency of the water has enabled tho camera to reproduce events that actually took place under the waves. The cast employed for the taking of the picture includes ‘2OO specially selected actors, 200 soldiei s, 250 fishermen, 00 mermaids, besides peasants, children, dancing girls, sea. nymphs, etc., in all amounting to over 1000 players. Among the many thrilling scenes depicted is Neptune’s Daughter’s thrilling struggle for life with a hired assassin at'fhe bottom of the sea. The famous athlete-actress T-- thrown, bound hand and foot, from a sixty-foot cliff into the sea. The picture is on a scale never before attempted by picture producers, and is sure to “go big” in Stratford. Reserved seats may he hooked at Grubb’s.