FOR THE LITTLE ONES

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 185, 6 August 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

FOR THE LITTLE ONES

IN THE NEW TOWN HALL'.. SUNNYTOWN SEES THE PANTOMIME. My Dear Little Friends, — There was tremendous excitement in Sunnytown the other day, for if was announced that the newly-formed Society of Playactors was going to stage its first pantomime—"Puss in Boots." The little parish hall was not nearly big enough for such a magnificent function, and so Mayor Goahead was approached and immediately decided that the Town Hall must be finished in time for the first performance. Special builders were put to work and in a remarkably short time the Town Hall completed. Of course all the Sunnytown boys and girls were looking forward to the treat, and mothers and fathers were continually being asked if they bad booked the seats for the family, if they would have tea over early on the night of the play, and a hundred and one such questions that children will ask on such occasions. Bobby and Betty Brown's people had not taken the precaution of making reservations and the children felt quite sure that they would be unable to obtain seats. "There will be plenty of room," Mr. Brown said. "The new Town Hail will hold easily two thousand people, and even if we can't get in the first night we can go the second." But that did not suit the two children. They wished to see the first performance, and, what is more, they wanted to get good seats. "We'll make mother and father be early," Bobby said when the two were by themselves. v "But how?" asked his sister. "By putting the clocks on," answered Bobby, and Betty whistled in a most unladylike .manner. "A splendid idea," she said. And so, on the day of the pantomime, the clocks in the Browns' bungalow mysteriously jumped ahead one whole hour, and neither Mr. nor Mrs. Brown noticed it. You see the children were very careful not only to move forward the hands of the old grandfather's clock in the hall and the cuckoo clock on the mantelpiece, but also to alter their father's pocket watch and their mother's tiny wristlet. As you will see by looking at the picture below, they arrived in heaps of time and are shown with their parents talking to the frockcoated attendant at the door. But it was just as well that they arrived early because soon the people began to roll up in great numbers and the teats wer.e soon full. As a matter of fact a lady and two gentlemen arrived at the other door just as the Browns were getting their tickets. The pantomime was a great success and everyone is looking forward to the next play that the Society of Playactors is going to produce. Those who are building up a model Sunnytown will find the making of the Town Hall an easy and a pleasant task. All the parts fit together nicely and I know that no one will have any trouble. It will be best to stick the floor of the balcony and the floor of the porch place before the porch is gummed to the main building, because otherwise it might be S^T) hard to fit in the pieces of' card f 1/ between the pillars. To the little >oT town-planners of to-day I wish every success.