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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1634, 28 December 1912, Page 9

There is a striking departure from the conventional in pantomime scenery in "Puss in Boots," exemplified in the big hunting scene which has'been transferred from tne Theatre Folies Marigny, Paris. The colour scheme impresses one, at, the outset, by the strange effect produced by the tones of red, white, and green. The roof of the house is red, in front runs a white fence, and behina it rise the tall, slim, green shapes of poplar trees in a vivid green. The scheme has been worked out according to the French semi-impres-sionist school, and when the stage is crowded with the huntsmen, in red and white, the clTect will indeed bo striking and original. This feature from Paris is one of the biggest and most important introduced into a pantomime in Australia for sonic years, the transfer of a huge ballet on'this scale marking a new departure in pantomime production. At the Sanitary Institute Congress in London a physioian made the statement that even in England the practice of taking a daily bath is confined "principally to a type of graduates of public schools and to the early iniiddle-agqd men." The honour roll as to frequency of bathing ho gave in this sequence: Scotchmen, Englishmen,'lrishmen. American women, English women, American men, Frenchmen, and Germans. Izaak Walton, the patron saint of fishernlen, is to bs honoured by a memorial window in 'Winchester Cathedral, England, where he is buried.