AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 63, 14 November 1913, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

- PANTOMIME LAST NIGHT. There was a fair attendance at the Town Hall last night, when the pantomime “80-Peep” was presented by Stanley McKay’s Royal Pantomime Company, which is touring the Dominion under the direction of Messrs George Stephenson and Alt'. Linley. The company proved itself a good combination of entertainers, and the performance went with a swing which is sometimes missing in pantomimes. The piece has an excellent fairy-tale plot which is never lost sight of, though specialty itfems dre introduced in plenty. As a whole the entertainment can be set down as one well calculated to amuse everybody. " Miss Rita Webb made a pretty 80-Peep, and during the evening rendered 1 a number' of excellent vocal items. As Jack Straw Miss Kathleen Mack was entirely satisfactory. She has just the correct “principal boy” figure, and she acted and sang nicely. In the second act she did some work with the drum-major s baton which showed her to be an expert in such work. Miss Cora Terry .gave a dignified rendering of the sister of the Shah. Jack’s mother (Mrs, Bumpkin) was in the hands of Mr Bruce Drysdale, who supplied a sufficient quantity of broad humor. Mr Walter Cornock was good i as' the l Shah of Persia, his excellent voice beiiig used to advantage in diisdvocali numbers. Miss Esme McLennan, .as I the Vizier, made a good appearance, and her song, with chorus, “Children of the Empire,” was well received, i'tlid ladies of the chorus also t being well in the accompanying evolutions. Miss Bertha Ashman also did well, contributing a very clean piece of stop dancing. Mr Victor Loydall was billed on the programme as Duncan; McTavish, but he had no connection with the plot and merely justified his existence in the cast with some good singing, dancing and “patter.” Fraulein Hertlez was in charge of the ballet, which was an excellent showing, the dancing being of a high standard. The scenery was good, and the transformation scene was quite as good as any of its class. A clever acrobatic turn was supplied by the three Anderson sisters, some highly grotesque attitudes being attained. The music supplied by the orchestra, was good and the dressing aiu|, mpunfing generally, left nothing lo dm desired. •; -h :•

Mr Stephenson announced.that owing to a mistake, in jbooking thte company could not, as intended,]show in New.. Plymouth,. •on Saturday and', therefore, would return to Stratford' and give a hrlatihee ’and evening performance of the,., pantomime “Old Mother Hubbard.”

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