ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 277, 15 April 1913, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE BLUE BIED. To-morrow niglit at the Theatre Roya' the J. C. Williamson Ltd. management will present for the first time to playgoers of New Plymouth, Maurice Maeterlinck's wonderfully successful fairy play "The Blue Bird," which is at present enjoying a record tour through the Dominion . Just as the Cat, the Dog, Milk. Sugar, Bread, Fire, Water, and Light are about the majority of children during the whole course of their lives, so in this realistic story thev accompany the little hero and heroine in their many adventures. The attributes of each are, it is stated, all well symbolised. The cat is always selfish and deceitful, and with feline craning he confines his professions of affection almost entirely to the little girl, although he is very intimate in his associations with milk. The dog is a bluff, honest creature, entirely honest to his little master, but continually wetting into trouble through his attempts to guard him from the machinations of the cat. Fire and Water are constantly hissing at one another. Bread is a flaccid friend of everybody. Sugar is a cloying sweetness, and Light is a beauteous radiance, illuminating everything, and ever protecting her wards from evil. The marvels of lighting and scenic display have, it is said, never been equalled. Never; it is said, has a pantomime, however gorgeous and complete, been so radiantly dressed or so artistically mounted »s "The Blue Bird." The electrician, the musician have, we are told, all put their hearts into their work, with' the result that the environment of fairyland is uninterruptedly present, and there is no defect to mar the harmony of the picture. All through the fairy plav wonderful things are made to happen in the search for the blup bird, which is the secret of happiness. Maeterlinck has materialised in his fantastic imagination of "perfumes of the night and dew." and in one scene "The Forest." the chief characters are the trees, Already nuite a number of scholars have responded to the advertisement retarding the essays on "The Bhie Bird," for which prizes are offered bv the .T. C. Williamson management. Althoueh the booking is excellent, there are still a number of seats in pithev thp Dress Circle or Reserved Stalls which mnv be selected at Colliers'. Childre" will be admitted for half price.