STRATFORD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 198, 10 January 1913, Page 3

STRATFORD NEWS.

BERNARD'S PICTURES. The pictures still continue to attract largo audiences. To-night the star film gives a dramatised version of Jim Bludso's exploits with the Prairie Belle, a Missibsipi steamboat. The poem is a well-known one, teling how Bludso kept his oath, if ever the Prairie Belle caught fire to hold her "nozzle agin' the bank till the last galoot's ashore." Everyone will appreciate a charming littlle Lubin drama, -'The Stubbornness of Youth." Phillip Leslie and Henry Atwood conceive, the idea of matching their children and are surprised when the young folks rehel against parental wishes. So they arrange to bring the young rebels together and leave the rest'to the little blind god. The scheme works admirably, the boy and girl meet and quickly fall in love, the old folks hasten matters by continually demanding acquiesence to their wishes. One day old Atwood brings home a weddng drese for his daughter and tells her she is to get married very shortly. Constance immediately 'phones to Paul and tells him to hurry up the wedding, and they plan an elopement which the parents are careful to see is successful. Constance returning home with her young husband to ask forgiveness is surprised to find the two jpapas calmly awaiting them to give their blessing. The girl is furious at being tricked, but too happy to remain angry long. The remaining pictures are of the usual ■ high order, and number among them several excellent scenics, s«me good comics, and comedy films.