AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10714, 20 September 1912, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

J. C. WILLIAMSONS' PAHTC* c 3 1 f« E, "SIXBADTJIK SAILOR." Write-; the critic on the Australasian <;}' "Sinbad tho Sailor"—the annual pantomime production to bo .staged here by J. C. "Williamson, Ltd, on Monday next, at a ouartor to eight. The modern plan in making Pantomime is to have ir.anugoric-.il eyes and agents ranging over the world for a year or so in. search of "effects." These are .supplemented as in "Sinbid the Sailor,, with nicturcs from the painting loft that have a glov in ;•::• lours harmonising with the c.vhiherant spirit of theme. _ Peril;.- . a M-o'-e )(' artistic designers in diffoivn! purta >f the earth have devoted thci:- 1a!--,>nts to the creation of costumes in uhich if there bo coupled something >f the original and the unexpected with a noto of daring that is not too adventurous, so much, tho better. A elevor Ballet Mistress reduces the mass of color and costume to rhythmical motion in dance and march. \ The choice of "Sinbad the Sailor" is ' a good one for a subject, because it offers in scenery and costumes much variety of selection from land and sea. In tho present production Mcssr;i Upward and Coleman have given the time Oriental glow to the scenes and settings which carry on the story and couplo the real, marveb of tho pantomime.' Amongst, the*:: e.re the Diamond Vallov, with a most wonderlul Serpent winding its 'engHi between crags and ncaks. Tho wealth of the tnblod Dhimond YnlUw is disnlaved in I a cascade of jewels, an indescribably beautiful effect in itself niacin furthov nerfect with a Diamond Ballet, 1 hero S s no time to wonder at the moment i, o ,v it is all achieved but one is there lost in admiration. The rose ballet appropriately set in a Persian garden, for there roses were first born, is a bewitching feature. There are marches too of Silver guards. Nubian guards <l„nees of fairies, and most captivatm* of all-A Flying ballet, in ulrch daintv coyphees. like Ariel hit, fnot1 ; "-hts, and soar over the auclitorium>attering nosies among the astonished natrons. "Sinbad s Am.is partv brings the amazing panorama to .' dose-even managerical adjective., are uistificd-onc can say do more. The box plans are now open at Hie Dresden.