PUSS IN BOOTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1766, 3 June 1913, Page 6

PUSS IN BOOTS.

From nine o'clock this morning until 5 p.m. tho box plans for the first four nights and for the initial matinee of "Puss in Boots" will be on view in the dress circle vestibule of the Opera House. The booking is not so heavy for tho opening representation as for subsequent per-, formances of $10 J. C. Williamson pantomime. In view of this, it is interesting to note that theie were vacant seats on tlie opening night of the H. B. Irving, Oscar Asclie, and the recent Royal Comic Opera, Co. season. This is due, no doubt, to the fact that playgoers imagine that tho plans are rushed for tho initial performance of a big production, which, so far, as New Zealand is concerned, is not the case at all. The members of the company should bo in particularly good form 011 Thursday, as, arriving "as they do to-morrow morning, they will liavo two days' complete rest before they begin their season liere. The scelicry anil effects arrived on AVedncsday last in cliarge of tho advance army qf mechanics, who, it is stated, liavo everything already prepared for the full scenic and light rehearsal which takes place to. morrow. Altogether there are over 250 people engaged' in the representation of tho pantomime, including some of the world's greatest pantomimists and specialty stars. No fewer than 200 tons of scenery and cfTcct.s to present it 011 tho same complete scale as when produced in Sydney recently are required. Features of "Puss in Boots" include the brilliant dancing of Mr. Fred Leslie and Miss Ivy Schilling; "Pip" Powell's (King Grabbus) and Rupert Darrell's (Cyrus Hanks), attempt to harness a 'highly strung horse (Messrs. Whitmore and Ilart); tho funny item, "Keep your foot oil tho soft, soft pedal," in which Fred Leslie, "Pip" Powell, and Vernon Davidson take part; numerous songs and melodies, including the popular "ragtime" numbers—"There's Someone , in Australasia" (Miss Loraine), "Robert E. Leo" (Fred. Leslio and Ruport Darrein, "Walks. Walks, Walks," ( '"Pip" Powell), "When the Brass Dafid Plays" (Miss Violet Loraine), "Oh, Mr. Dream Man" (Alice Russon), "Something in the Seaside Air" (Miss Violet Loraine), "When You'ro Married Girts" (George Miller), "Got to Sing in Ragtime" (George Miller), "If Wo all Went on Strike" ("Pip" Powell) ,"Ali That I ask is Love" (Dorothy Firmin), "Consequences" (Arthur Davidson and Alice Russon), also "The Ragtime Violin," "Alexander's Ragtime Baud," and "Everybody's Doin' it Now."

At the Queen's Drive, Lyall Bay, on Wednesday next, at 1 o'clock, Messrs. (In,liter, Dykes, and Co. will sell by public miction the household furnituro belonging to Mr. W. 11. Nash, who has sold his property. Included in the furniture for sale is a valuable grandfather's clock which is said to bo 140 years old, nnd one of the finest in the Dominion,.and a twomanual and pcd.il organ with -25 stops and foot and hand-blower. Tile furniture is to be sold without reserve. That tickling, irritating cough may bo relieved promptly by "NAZOL." A. few drops on lump-sugar and repeated frequently.—Advt. i Freo kincmatoKrnph shows in the unit, ine-rooms nro to be started in tho tirincipul railway station of Kansas City.