"THE BUSH CINDRELLA."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19986, 30 June 1928, Page 18

"THE BUSH CINDRELLA."

Women in all ages love a mirror. From Babylon and Egypt down to now have come mirrors of every description Decorated sometimes with jewels and sometimes with carvings or filigree work the ornamentation usually is representative of the time. We women of New Zealand very shortly wilUhave an opportunity of looking into a mirror decorated with small carvinps representative of old colonial times ancj the present We may then be struck with the fact that we are still very much as we wore, in heart, though wo have lost such considerable inches of skirt. Mr Henry Hayward. in writinc "The Rn«b Cinderella," » charmingly-whimsical little story about ourselves, had in mind those pioneer women of New Zealand who were the mothers and grandmothers of the efficient cirls of to-day. The courage and licht heartedness that charactered the women of the pioneers is shown as having descended to their daughters, and they are to be seen upholding . the standard set in old colonial days. The niciure ad anted from the story will by and bye be showing. When we look into that mirror we shall see that we are still the makers of the home for which New Zealand is famed the whole world over. The parts are played by T)nle Austen, the star, and Miss Slay Bain.