Page 11 Advertisements Column 2

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1915, Page 11 (Supplement)

Miss Nance O'Neill has lately bee's "starring" in the United States in vaudeville. She has been presenting scenes and tragic incidents, including the sleep-walking scene from "Macbeth." Next year a "Pantomime Beauty Show" will travel Australasia. The "Mother Goose" Company is so described by the J. C. Williamson directors, who recently advertised in Melbourne, inviting ladies, whose beauty and attractiveness would entitle them for inclusion in such a combination. The inducement was held out that the engagement would last for about ten months, travelling throughout Australia and New Zealand (the advertisement read like a promise of a never terminating Arcadian picnic!)—while the crowning temptation of all was that the happy young women selected would be cinematographed and their pictures shown throughout the world as types of the high state of physical perfection amongst the women of Melbourne; and, further, that they would bo known everywhere as the Pantomime Beauty Show". Letters from all parts of Australia and New Zealand poured in on the management, and finally 150 were asked to "kindly call!" There were tall girls, short girls, thin girls, and fat girls, girls with the latest white complexions, and girls with none at all. (iirls turned out in quite the last creations, other from the country, but all were bonny, bright, and keen. For hours, Producer Wenman and Miss .Everett scanned, questioned, and passed them on to Victor Champion for the testing of their voice*. To-day, at last, the work is over, and the pantomime beauties are being taught to be even more attractive in the future than when they first passed the Cerberus of th* stunt.