AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 13, 9 December 1916, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

FOLEY S PICTURES.

“IRIS.”

“Iris” is. nothing if not a ladies’ picture. There lies the charm. Who has seen sucli gorgeous dressing ui a film before? It is a masterpiece of the dressmaking art. “Iris” is a widow wealthy, fabulously wealthy, and she does not spare her cash when it is a question of putting clothes on her hack. The scene is a real English one, and the pictures of the lanes ami meadows of the will recall pleasant memories to many of the oldftr people out here. “Iris” knows the extremes of wealth and poverty, her rail being due to the machinations of dishonest lawyers. However, when ou the brink of a suicide’s grave, “Ins is rescued by a man—a millionaire man at that—which, of course, makes the sequel all the more interesting. There should be a majority of womenfolk at the Theatre to-night to witness the last screening of this all-English production (a special of Hepworth b). Apropos of the foregoing is the proverb: “Fine feathers make fine birds,” and this is strikingly illustrated in another film which will charm the gentler sex. It is entitled “Birds iof Foreign Lands,” the wealth of color lin which is positively unique and equals the gorgeousness of the principal scenes in the star item of the evening. In “Mutt and Jeff,” there lis plenty of scope for wholesome laughter. while “The War Gazette” supplies never - ending information. Eight o’clock sharp Saturdays.