ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9188, 13 April 1910, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"PETER PAN." TO-NIGHT. Mr Williamson's "Peter Pan" Company, headed by Mr Thomas Kingston, arrived to-day, and the staff are having a busy time preparing for to-night's production. In sending this charming play Mr Williamson has supplied an ideal attraction for the N.Z. public. When Peter begs his listeners to clap their hands or wave their handkerchiefs to show that they "believe in fairies," it is always the men in the audience who * respond first and most vigorously—afterwards they look round in a shame-faced way and an apologetic smile as if to say, "Of course, we only did it to please Peter." But the truth is, not <t man there could let Tinker Bell die just for want of a sign that he believed . in fairies; he is' frightened by the knowledge that every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," a little fairy drops down dead, he dares not think what the world would be without fairies, so he claps his "hands and saves the life of Tinker Bell. Of course, men believe in fairies, and why shouldn't they? for if ever there was anyone in the world for whom the fairies worked and cared, it is mankind as a class. Every man of ordinary luck has his good fairy who, without troubling him to help, sets his meals ready cooked on the table, keeps the buttons on his shirts, and the holes out of his socks, brushes his clothes, tidies his home, cleans his last summer's hat, and generally looks after his welfare and comfort. Many have quite a troop of little fairies to welcome them home, with bright merry endearments when the day's work is done. Their gay laughter and sweet kisses smooth the wrinkles from many a careworn brow, and sooth the tired brain, making all business and other worries vanish as though by magic. So is there any wonder that men clap so vigorously when Peter Pan asks them to save Tinker Bell's life? for not a single fairy can be spared 1 from this prosaic world, and well they know it. A few advantageous positions in the reserved area may be booked at G. H. Bennett's for to-night and also to-morrow evening.