AMUSEMENTS 2nd WEEK 'COMMENCES TOMORROW DAD . . . plays the Piccolo . . . Maiden Aunt Jessie plays the horses . . . and "tree beautiful daughters play the game of love with a bashful plumber ... a bumptious banker and a charming but alarming correspondence school musician. A Beautiful Home-loving Picture ! • Kerridge-Odeon ’Phone RE(i E N T 69-389 THE HOME OF BIG ATTRACTIONS A. R. Chapman Manager Reservations at Theatre 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. TODAY 2 p.m, 8 p.m. FRANK SINATRA DORIS DAY - GIG YOUNG ETHEL BARRYMORE “YOUNG AT HEART” “YOUNG AT HEART” In Warnercolour Yes, it’s Home Sweet Home and harmony . . . until a stranger arrives on the threshold! WITH A BURST OF MUSIC - A SHOWER OF SONG AND A BLAZE OF COLOUR! Not in ages has there been so much entertainment . . . For all Ages! (Approved for Universal Exhibition) THE BIG FUN PANTOMIME PANTOMIME JACK AND THE BEANSTALK JACK AND THE BEANSTALK BOX PLANS (.6 Days Ahead) OPEN TODAY OPEN TODAY
at the D.I.C. It would Be Wise to Reserve Early for the GAYEST. BRIGHTEST, Most Colourful STAGE Show of a Decade GALA opening at the THEATRE ROYAL Commending at the Matinee SATURDAY, JUNE 16th SATURDAY, JUNE 16th NIGHTLY AT 7.45 NIGHTLY AT 7.45 JACK JACK JACK and the BEANSTALK THREE HOURS OF SHEER DELIGHT, JACK AND THE BEANSTALK Its Gigantic Its Spectacular PANTOMIME PANTOM,IM E EVERYBODY LOVES A PANTOMIME THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANYTHING BIGGER BRIGHTER or BETTER In 2 Acts and 12 Beautiful Scenes. Gorgeous Costumes Spectacular Scenic and Lighting Effects Magical and Haunting Melodies Clean, Clever Comedy Daizling and .Glittering with all the Highlights of the English
p-a-n-t-o-m‘-i-m-e There are so many good things in JACK AND THE BEANSTALK One never knows y/hat is going to Happen Next!. SINGERS, DANCERS, COMEDIANS HEADED and PRODUCED by the Popular English Pantomime Comedian EDDIE MARTIN EDDIE MARTIN EDDIE MARTIN As Mother Grundy, the Lovable Old Pantomime Dame. And a LARGE and SELECTED CAST of PLAYERS MARJORIE MARSHALL as The Principal Boy JACK 3 IRLEY RUSHTON as The Principal Girl MARY ROBERT LAKE as THE DEMON KING PHYLLIS McKAY The Golden Voiced Soprano as ‘THE RAINBOW FAIRY” RAY TONKIN As THE MAYOR, PUDDLEDUCK ALLAN MOORE As TWEEDLEDUM WILF LAUDER - as TOTTLEMBUCK JOAN ADAMS as THE BLUE BIRD WILLIAM BARBENCH as THE SORCERER IHZ ACROBATIC MARVELS In The Big Circus Scene PETER THE FROG SHELTON LEWIS as FARMER GILES And a bevy of Beautiful Chorus Girls FULL CHORUS —AND A FULL ORCHESTRA Under the Baton of MR LEN BARNES. THERE’S! A THRILL A MINUTE THERE’S! A LAUGH A MINUTE THERE’S! GOOD CLEAN FUN AT A PANTOMIME YOU WILL SEE!— Mother Grundy’s Farm Beautiful Cloudland The Gigantic Beanstalk Circus DSy The Carnival Fair The Funny, Clowns Agatha the Dancing Qow Springtime in Vienna The Delightful Operatic Scena. Mayor Puddleduck Space Ship The Giant’s Castle the Spectacular Storm Scene. You will see a Sparkling and Refreshing Stage Show that will bring back many Happy Memories of the Last Generation of the Annual Pantomimes of the J. C. WILLIAMSON’S FIRM MATINEES Sat. June 16th. 2 p.m. Wed. June 20th. 5 p.m. Sessions Friday, June 22nd, 5 p.m. Sat., June 23rd, 2 p.m. PLANS NOW OPEN AT THE D.I.C. PRICES. Reserves 9/-, 6/6. Children Half Price. Gallery Day Sales. Theatre Royal Sweet Shop .. 3/6 Chidren Half Price to all Performances The Pantomime is proudly presented by the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association for the War Memorial Grandstand Appeal.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27988, 7 June 1956, Page 1
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