PUSS IN BOOTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1765, 2 June 1913, Page 6

PUSS IN BOOTS.

' This morning at tho Dresden the plans will bo opened, at eight o'clock for the first four nights and for the initial matinee of J. C. Williamson's« enormously successful pantomime, "Puss in Boots,' which is to be staged at tho Opera House on Thursday night next. _ Judging by the number of inquiries which have already been made regarding the booking arransements there is certain to be a large demand for seats, so to avoid any unseemly crushing the management will have a staff of ushers in attendance from ail early hour to form a queue, which will ensure that those arriving earliest shall have first choice of seats. _ It is stated that, unlike most pantomimes, the story of "Puss in Boots" is followed quite closely, for the cat i 9 given the magic fairy boots, and putting them 'on becomes endowed with the power of speech. Thus equipped, he challenges tho ogre to & series of lightning changes, and in turn becomes a gorilla, lion, and finally a mouse, which Puss at once gobbles tip, and secures his humble master a patent of nobility, and, incidentally, a lovely brido with whom to live happy ever afterwards. Almost from first to last the stage, it is said, is a blazo of colour and dazzling light,- and features of the production are the gorgeous dresses and magnificent scenery. There are fourteen scenes, and in spectacular effect perhaps the cliiet scone is "The Golden Orchard, m which the masses of fruit on tho trees are suddenly illumined by and a ballet introduces a tableau of fair os in a shower of silver ram, Miss Violet Loraine, tht> "principal boy, has, it is said, achieved a great triumph, and Mr. Pip Powell as King Grabbns, and Mr. George Miller as Dame Shortly, are de scribed as the. funniest pair yet seen m pantomime. Other attractions are the dancing of Mr. Fred Leslie and Ijj Rchilling, Messrs. Collins and Hart, burlesque acrobats, and tho Gaudsmidts ana their two dogs.