AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 25 August 1909, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

TO-MUUT. JACK AND JILL. Mr. J. C. Williamson's record pantoiniini) will make its first appearance in Xcw Plymouth at the Theatre Koyal to-night, for a season of two nights and one matinee, The piece brings with it such a reputation from Australia and the chief centres of New Zealand that there should he no doubt as to its prospects here. The company presenting it is not only the largest that has ever toured Xcw Zealand, but includes many artists' of world-wide reputation. )'n spite of the magnitude of the production, everything will be in readiness for the rise of the curtain at 7.45 < this evening, as an army of Mr. Williamson's most expert mechanists is travelling with the company. Speaking of the Melbourne production the Herald says: "The master craftsman is writ large over the whole production. It is mounted on. a superb and lavish scale; the dressing is a line study hj color harmonies. The chorus and ballet show .splendid discipline. The stage pictures are magnificent, and deserving of the highest praise. One can sit comfortably in the theatre and watch the bevy of bathing girls romping gleefully in the surf, while the billows roll in and break over them in glistening foamy s'pray. The magic hill is a panorama of icicled beauty enveloping witches, demons, fairies, gnomes, and mortals alike. The spell is broken, and instantly winter vanishes and summer reigns, clothing the landscape in a floral robo of richlyvaried color, and so on through the evening, surprise follows surprise, Spectacle surpasses spectacle, until the whole merry story culminates in a perfect .blaze* of glory in the Palace of Precious Stones with the Grand March of the Jewels." To-morrow afternoon the performance will commence at 1.45. The pantomime will be presented exactly the same as at night, iind children will be admitted to all parts of the house at jialf-price,

CARTOONIST AXl> IJNTCTTAINER. JScngougll, the Canadian cartoonist and entertainer, opened his Australian tour in Svdiiev under the direction ot Mr. Frederic Shipman, and scored such an instantaneous hit that instead of onlv playing Australia, as originally :n----tended, Mr. Shipman has succeeded in extending tl|e tour sufficiently to include the more important towns of New Zealand. The licngongh tour has been such a success from all standpoints, lioth In the praise of the Press and the support df the public, that Mr. Shipman has dropped the Newbury tour and is rteuiti.i" his entire attention to llengough.