AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 26, 27 December 1916, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

FOLEY'S PICTURES. "THE ACTIIESS AND THE MINISTER" A remarkablo story of the stage (from behind the scenes) is unfolded in "The Actress and the Minister," a five-reel film to be screened at His Majesty's Theatre to-night. Florence. Burke, a poor Cabaret singer, has a crippled sister dependent upon her. A woman of daring beauty resource, she tricks a prominent theatrical manager into a long engagement at a high salary. She decided on a trip to the coast to see her crippled sister and have a few weeks holiday. There she met tho Rev. Robert Fenton a slum mission worker. He had no knowledge of her identity or her past, but still he loved her. They married, and thus they found themselves, the parson, who hated the stage, and the actress, who pretended she wasn't together in the one little home. A capital unniber of the war Gazette will be screened, also a breezy comedy entitled "Love and Bullets." TOWN HALL, RACE NIGHT. "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST." The bright merry and fascinating pantomime which croated such a favourable impression with Stratford play-goors recently, will he repeated for the last time, in the Town iHlall, on race night, January Ist. Several new and attractive items are promised ; one particular being the singing for the first time in New Zealand of the big American song hit " Tuly's Time in Holland." New and pretty dances have been in actual preparation snico the last performance, and the pantomime generally should easily compare now with any of the leading companies on tour. The orchestra has been rehearsing strenuously for race night's performances. The net proceeds are t-) ho kindly donated to Lady Liverpool Fund for Comforts for Soldiers at the Front.