AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 218, 8 September 1908, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

Tile box plan will be opened at the Dresden on this (Tuesday) morning. One of the most pleasing features of Mr. J. C, Williamson's pantomime is the bright corps of children associated with it, and tlys year's attraction, "ijumpty Dumpty," is to furnish an example of juvenile cleverncbs. llie children present the nursery rhymes hallut, which they lind so congenial an occupation that it amounts to nothing more than & delightful 'nightly romp on their part. "Nothing," says a Melbourne paper describing tins feature, "could be more charming in conception. All the heroes and heroines with whom infancy is familiar, from Rvd Riding Hood and Little Miss Mullet to the Froggie who went awoohig, -Jack the giant killer, Cinderella, and the Prince, are givea Corporeal sig-< nifirations, ,md Hie adults will liml pleasure in the quieknvss of recognition shown by their youthful companions/' "Huinptv Dumpty" in its general scheme makes as strong an appeal to young folk as to children of a larger growth, ft is particularly wealthy in examples of animated and intellig-imt 'nature, us exemplified in 1 Messrs Queen and Lc JJrun's baby eie- ; "pliant—said to be even more amusing than t'heir horse in ''Mother (100-e' --and other representations of the animal kingdom both on land and in the vasty deep. Chie of the excursions taken on the Extravaganza is a submarine one, where the children again illustrate natural history, Rut the pantomiiie achieved its phenomenal success in Australia as much on its comedy as its spectacle. The series of burlesques in which ,Mr Rert (iilibert and Mr id or Loydall figure as King and Queen must from all accounts, be extremely diverting. The onlv performance will be given (m i Friday next; at the Theatre Royal.