Entertainments.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 July 1917, Page 2

Entertainments.

—▼ "THE LITTLE JACK HORNIER" PANTOMIME. AT THE KING'S. LEVIN. The Royal Pantomime Company had an audience of over two hundred at Farland's Picture Theatre, last evening. Such an attendance was exceptionally good in view of the ifact that another entertainment was in progress at Levin on the same evening. The pantomime was on the traditional lines o,'f principal boy, leading lady, hold baron, amorous widow, and travesty king, witlh settings of 'clio-iliis girls in broad hose and short dresses. A capable orchestra played excellent music .throughout, and the jokes and general diaologue were of more than average pantomime merit. The part of "Little Jack Horner" was exceptionally well filled by the principal boy. and "Marjory Daw" also was well pourtrayed l . The "King Cole" of the pantomime was made to stand out; it was a clever characterisation of a part to which was not allotted the best lines of the piece. "(Hassan" also wa.s well pourtrayed, and the rollicking humor infused into the parts oif "Widow Horner," "The Baron" and "The Up-to-date Female 'Help" combined to make the pantomime a highly enjoyable series of frolic and "high jinks." The chorus girls were a cle,ver combination, and in dances they proved themselves most extraordinary. Amongsit the songs were some of a patriotic nature, and the audience re-demanded these with enthusiasm. Perhaps the mosit entertaining of all the songs was one which parodied a well-lknown air from the grand opera "Toreador." The singer made his ludicrous points inimitably;, an'd /was especially wtell-bac-ked by the whole of the chorus. The dancing of the principals was of pleasing quality; and the orchestra infused into its playing the vim and rattle without which no pantomime can prove a thorough success. The performance, in all, was of a quality not often seen in ."the small towns'' and those who made a point of attending it should have gone home ill satisfied mood. BEAUTIFYING .SOCIETY'S CONCERT. A very successful concert was given in the Century Hal! last night, under the auspices of the Lertn Beautifying Society. Pressure on our space today precludes publication of an extended report, but it will appear in our next issue.