Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

AMUSEMENTS.

♦ empress pictures The Btar drama for to-night'B change of programme is in two icta entitled 'A' Daughter of Eve." John Bunny will again appear in the excruciatingly funny Vitagraph comedy, "Suspicious The New Zealand Animated News will be BCreened, nhowinj; nom«. interesting topical ilcin?. A lovely scenic together with iho usu&l high-clasa supporting dramas an ] comics inako an interesting and instructive programme. Next Wednesday Charleß Dickena' "Pickwick Papers" will be screened. ABOUT THE MIDGETS. Tiny Town, the wonderful midget city, will undoubtedly prove a great attraction at the Te Kuiti Public Hall on Monday. The performers ara all midgets but not mis-shapen people. They are truly men and women with all the hopes and ambitions, feelingß and emotions of full-sized people, They are punctilious about their dreßß. and their suits are cut and their frocks fitted with the precision that marks the work of the lirst-claßfl tailor or dressmaker. Their meals look like dolla' tea parties, rnd they can effect; sumo economy in the matter of sleeping apartments. Occasionally midgets marry each other, but mure frequently the 35 inches high man seeks his life'a companion among the girlj of the "big" world. Deiderich Ulpts, who is one of the brainiest and smallest 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 on the mantleshelf. Mr Ulptß is well endowed with worldly goods, and has a beautiful home in Vienna. Hayati Hessid, on the other hand, is confirmed bachelor. Though 56 years of age, he -lays, 1 "I like to think I'm 21 with the girls." Nearly all the midgets of Tiny town are bachelors, but there i? rumour of a love match, and a marriage between a charming dampel of 33 inches and a fine fellow of 35 inches is by no means an improbability. The tiny people have brought their Viennese cook to South Africa, for they Ere 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 ie necessary each Tiny Townsmen uses his own specially small razor, or the barber uses it on him. For recreation their tastes vary quite as much as those of ordinary-sized folk. The men like billiards, playing on a special miniature table which they bring with them. The box plan iB now open at McColl's, tobacconist.

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/KCC19131018.2.15

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 612, 18 October 1913, Page 4

Word count
Tapeke kupu
419

AMUSEMENTS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 612, 18 October 1913, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 612, 18 October 1913, Page 4

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert