“OLD MOTHER HUBBARD” PANTOMIME.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2397, 25 February 1922, Page 3

“OLD MOTHER HUBBARD” PANTOMIME.

“Chu Chin Chow,” which ran for years in London, only had seventeen performances to its credit in Auckland, but/‘Old Mother Hubbard” pantomime ran in the same city twenty-two consecutive times, five more than the great Eastern play. This fact should speak for itself, and convince the play-ging public that tliey-aie/o see something right out of the ordinary in touring companies at the Town Hall, Foxton, on Friday, March 3rd. Naturally, the expense of travelling a big city , production will be heavy, but the management feel confident that the*public will recognise their enterprise by attending in large numbers. The principal comedian is Mr Horace Harpur, an exponent of female characters of wide experience, and he is ably assisted in his fun-making by Mr Arthur Bertram, as Old Mr Hubbard, Miss Rubie Raymond as Sally Horner, and Mr Arthur Meredith as Ponto, the hungry dog. The shapely-limbed principal boy is Miss Lulla Fanning, whose fine contralto voice is heard with Miss Audray Carlyle in the pretty duets, “The Bamboo Tree” and “Kiss a Miss.” Miss Ethel Osborn’s, the fairy princess, voice is extremely fine. Her numbers include “The Pipes of Pan,” “The Nightingale’s Trill,” and /The Last Rose of Summer.” Intending patrons are advised to book early for this city attraction at Heath’s.