AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 19 April 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

j HiS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

“TJXCLE TOM’S CABIX.” A programme that should prove particularly interesting ami attractive will be shown at Mis Majesty’s 'Jheairc for tbe first time to-night. The “feature” film is a 5000 ft production by the famous World Film Corporation of the wonderfully popular book and play “uncle Tom’s Cr.win.'’ The story hardly needs telling, fo'r who is not familiar with the old Christian negro, who, sold to master after master, goes through many adventures ami suffering, till anally ho is flogged to within an inch of his life by the brutal Simon Legree. Topsy, the child of .Nature; Eliza, who escapes . across the ice to her husband and freedom ; and the others are • well known to the older generation, and will he welcomed by the younger with keen delight. An excellent supporting programme includes one of the ! clever Edison studies “Cartoons on Tour,” and a subject of timely interest, “Asphyxiating Gases,” their manufacture and uses, as well as the latest “Graphic” and a beautiful ’ scenic studv. i I | TOWN HALL, EASTER MONDAY. ■ The enthralling mining story of Shannon Fife, 1 “The Valley of Eost Hope.” has been admirably “picturised” by a combiiiatiop of four of. the most famous film cdmplmios, the Seiig, Vitagraph, Luhin, and S. mcl A. This drama is the star attraction at the Town Hall on Easter Monday .light. Through the plot of the picture, wi ch is set in the times and places of the early Californian gold rushes, unis a ■ pretty little love story, sweetly* tola. | Briefly, the story concerns the operations of a gang of swindlers, who “salt” a barren district and •.hereby dupe thousands of simple miners. The plot is discovered, and the rogues flee from the wrath of the angry mob. Then comes the sensational climax, whe.n the train carrying the swindlers is c Wi‘eck*ea, ‘nhd tile/ villains meet With a well-reserved flit in The supporting series includes two fine fun-films.

“Hunting a Husband” is a Vitagraph comedy drama of unusual merit, and “Green Apples,-'■ 1 by’the Beauty Company, leaves nothing to he desired. Tlie. latest news in ’the most graphic form is presented to patrons in the most recent “Topical Budget.”

CHRISTY MINSTRELS, RECORD HOUSE AT TOKO. The 1 Stratford Christy Minstrels were accorded an excellent reception by a packed audience at Toko last 1 'nights i ‘The i.kvdsnkirowdod fun* before the curtain went up and many had'to be content witlr standing 11,0.11. The jKodorhiance'as ;:!'- whole was' an exceedingly creditable! one, and pMved what can be done. by''.systematic rehearsing and attention to details a great deal of credit is duo to Mr Fred Foley, who as “Mistah Johnston” had schooled his team so well tliat there were few traces left of the j “amateur” in the show. The corner men wore well up in their work, a"d the part and chorus singing was a lev,elation tp many, the voices blending delightfully. The programme opened with a Ragtime chorus and went right on to the finish without a hitch. Comic songs were rendered ty

Messrs Hansford (“Any Rags”), Ward (“Goo Goo Eyes”), Bradley (“If the Man in the Moon were a Goon”), i and Lister (“Keep the Home Fires | Burning,” i The last singer did not do justice to Ids song, but tiie chorus by the members of the troupe compensated for the shortcoming. The “OKI Kentucky Home,” sung by Mr Weston with part chorus by the numbers was received with great applause, and an insistent demand for an encore. An amusing film of the Johnson-Wil-lard fight finished the first half cf the programme.

The second part was filled by songs contributed by Miffs Saugster. “The Minstrel Boy” (encored), Misses Barker and Ransford, and Mr f.eo A-.kins gave a novel shadowgraph performance, touching quite new ground in ordinary concert entertainment The “one and only” Fred Foldy kept , the audience in a state of mystification for half-an-hour with his conjuring tricks, and concluded with a screamingly funny ventriloqnial item which took the house by storm. Tbc Stratford orchestra of eight performers led by Mr R. Cottier, opened the proceedings with an overture which made one picture the scene in a city theatre waiting for the curtain to run up. The Tokoites catered well for the visitors, and Messrs Bocock and Gernhncfer did yeomen service in carrying out nil the hall arrangements. A dance followed the entertainment, and, favored with good music by Mr Fox and the orchestra, the dancers had a right merry time,, the revellers dispersing about 2 a.m.