“MOTHER GOOSE” PANTOMIME.
A BRILLIANT SUCCESS.
Despite inelement weather there was a good attendance at the Royal Theatre last night to witness the initial performance of. the “Mother Goose" pantomime, written and produced by Mr Lester Sinclair, aidi r l»v Miss Winifred La France.
The performance far outclassed jiav local performance yet produced in Fox ton and reflected great credit on .the producers. The scenery and lighting effects were splendid and the costumes of the performers excellent. Mr Sinclair, as Sir Guv do Broke kept the house in roars of laughter, his “washing balky” M-ene, in which a live pig was used as “Imby" fairly brought the house down. He also made a great hit with a comic song entitled “The Body in the-Bag." Miss La France, as usual, uas called upon to respond to repeated encores and her child impersonal ions were greatly appreciated. The leading characters wore: Mr IL Hinds, “The Wicked Baron,” Andy Itcid. “The Demon," Miss,Andrews, leading lady, Mr J. Perreau, Dame, nil of whom displayed much talent in their respecti\m parts. A pretty little, dance was given by Miss Mollie Downes and Miss Maggie Smith, who were called upon to repeat their performance. Comedy ran high throughout llie production and the sinking; was parlioulfirly lino. The ballet girls gave the finishing touch to flic scenes, in their pretty costumes, Miss Winifred La France’s wardrobe was particularly fine. On the whole the performance reflected great credit on the prodneers and many favourable comments were heard at the fall of the curtain. You musn’t fail to see the repeat performance on Friday night. Quite a number of those who witnessed last night’s performance have signified their intention of again witnessing the performance. Be there or bust. HOME CHI LI IRON AS GUESTS AT SATURDAY’S MATINEE. The management have invited all the Beach Home children to attend Saturday afternoons matinee performance of “Mother Goose" free of charge. Other elnldrcn will he admitted to the panto, at the small charge of (id.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19240805.2.8
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2767, 5 August 1924, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
333“MOTHER GOOSE” PANTOMIME. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2767, 5 August 1924, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.