ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 115, 1 October 1912, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE MAYOR OF TINY TOWN.

A queer little chap is Hayati Hassid, the Mayor of Tiny Town, who will appear at the Theatre Royal on Thursday with the Tiny Town Company. A Turk by birth and 5G years of age. he looks the part of an elderly gentleman as he struts about the stage. Though less than throe feet in height, he is perfectly formed in every respect, and, except for his stature, he is just the usual stamp of a man of his age, addicted to comfortable chairs, and possibly an occasional | Whisky and soda! The present is. his first visit to Australasia, although he has been in almost every other country under -the sun. Although he is so small, the rest of his family are above the average size. He is small enough to sleep in a dress basket. He says he much prefers it to an ordinary bed, as he finds it much warmer. He doesn't notice being small. "You see," he says, "I have always been the same. It would seem funny to me if all the people in the world were reduced to my height." Hayati, in his capacity as Mayor of Tiny Town, has great ideas of the way the affairs of a city should be conducted. In Sydney recently he had the misfortune to cross a muddy street. There was not much mud when judged by the standard of an ordinary foot, but it was sufficient to reach to Hayati's ankles. "Ah!" he said, "if I were Mayor of Sydney, I would make my men keep the streets clean!" Hayati has his lighter moments, however," in which he sings comic songs in several languages. At the entertainment in New Plymouth on Thursday he will appear in some of his comic numbers.