AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9177, 28 August 1908, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

THE MALLINSONS. ,

The Mallinson song recital is to be given in the Town Hall this evening. Mr Albert Mallinson is now considered England's greatest song composer and an accompanist of the highest merit. The "Morning Post," London, says:-"The attraction of the Yorkshire composer's music lies in its originality and in the absence of any artificiality. Each song is a different expression of what the composer feels to be an . appropriate musical setting of the words he has Chosen." In Mrs Mallinson the composer has an ideal exponent, she is a singer with a high soprano voice of a beautiful even quality and a production which is delightfully easy. In addition to Mr and Mrs Mallinson, the party includes Miss Rebe Kussmann, a young violiniste, and Miss Evelyn Wyman, a gifted pianiste. The box plan is on view at Mis? Rive's.

HUMPTY DUMPTY

One of the most pleasing features of Mr J. C. Williamson's pantomime is said to be the bright corps of children associated with it, and this year' attraction "Humpty Dumpty" is to furnish an example of juvenile cleverness." The chililren present the nursery rhymes ballet, which they find so congencial an occupation that it amounts to nothing more than a delightful nightly romp on their part. "Nothing," says a Melbourne paper describing this feature, "could be more charming in conception. All the heroes and heroines with whom infancy is familiar, from Red Riding Hood and Little Miss Muffett to the Froggie who went awouing, Jack thtGiant Killer, Cinderella, and the Prince, are given corporeal significance, and adults will find pleasure in the quickness of recognition shown by their youthful companions. The only performance will be given at the Town Hall on Tuesday next.