Entertainments

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 November 1913, Page 2

Entertainments

TINY TOAVN

Tiny Town, the wonderful Midget City, will undoubtedly prove a great attraction at the King's Theatre, Levin, 011 .Friday, November 14. The performers are all midgets, but not mis-shapen people. They are men and women with all the hopes and the ambitions, feelings and emotions of full-sized people. They are punctilious about their dress, and their suits are cut and their frocks titled, with the precision, that marks the work of the first-class talior or dressmaker. Their meals look like dolls' tea parlies, and they cancelled some economy in Ihe matter of sleeping apartments. Occasionally midgets marry each other, and more frequently the 35 inches high man seeks his life's companion among the girls of the "big" world. Deiderich Flpts, who is one of the brainiest and smallesi midgets in the world, is married to a ' normal-sized wife, and has two daughters who can easily lift their father up and put him 011 the mantleshclf. Hr I r I pis is well endowed with worldly goods, and has a beautiful home 'in Vienna. Nearly all the midgets of Tiny Town are bachelors, but there is rumour of a love match, and a marriage between a charming damsel of 33 inches and a fine fellow of 35 inches is by 110 means an improbability. The liny people have brought their Viennese cook to New Zealand for they are mostly Austrians, and like their national dishes. A barber (who is also valet to the men) looks after the ladies' hair, for women midgets, almost without exception, have beautiful tresses, though the men shave very little. When a shave is necessary each Tinv Townsman uses his own specially small razor, or the barber uses it mi him. For recreation their tastes vary quite as much as those of ordinarv-sized folk. The men liftc billiards, ldaving on a special miniature table which they bring with them. Only one programme will be 'riven in Levin —at 8 p.m. -Prices: 4s. 3s, and 2.