ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2708, 12 January 1910, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

POLLARD’S AIERRY MIDGET CO.

It is hoped that the playgoers and public generally of Gisborne will attend in large numbers to welcome Pollard’s .Merry Midgets, who open at His Majesty’s Theatre to-night. The object of the originator of these “Midgets,” to put a wholesome, amusing and entertaining performance before the public on high class lines will surely commend itself to all thoughtful people. Mr Chas. Pollard, whose name is, and has been, a household word, as a producer of juvenile comic opera for the past thirty —ars, has determined, in organising “The Merry Midgets” to put a brilliant and thoroughly up-to-date entertainment, complete in every detail, and staged in as entire a manner as it would be in Sydney or Melbourne. before the provincial public. He has therefore gone to great pains to secure only the verv best and most experienced midget artistes that experience and money could get together. Framed in beautiful scenery, painted by Mr J. J. Ricketts, of Sydney, the Merry Midgets go through a brilliant programme of excerpts from comic opera, musical comedy, pantomime, brilliant ballots and charming action songs and dances, delightful musical scenas and operettas. The ballets and incidental dances are invented and pro. dared lor the ballet mistress, bliss Alice Mitchell, late of Mr J. C. Williamson’s His Majesty’s Theatre, Sydney, and the whole is produced by Mr Pollard in his usual complete and lavish style. One of the most original and interesting items on the programme is produced by the “ Wondergraph”, which gives a “scena” mingling the real people in the shape of “The Merry Midgets” with a brilliant cinematograph episode. The programme is brought to a conclusion by the beautiful nautical

“dramalet” “Trafalgar, or the Death of Nelson,’ ’in two scenes and a tableau. The management have decided to charge popular prices so that everybody may have the opportunity of witnessing these performances.

PATHB PICTURES

The Pathe Pictures’ “Nero” programme was shown last night for the last time amid much enthusiasm. A large crowd of picture lovers were present, and as the many fine films were thrown on the screen, applause was loud and frequent. The pictures were projected in the usual brilliant manner, without the slightest trace of vibration whatever. Owing to the advent of Pollard’s Merry Midgets there will he no pictures shown until Monday next, on which occasion another grand change of programme will be put forward.