AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13708, 24 September 1908, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

HUMPTY DUMPTY. Th« box plan will be opened at th« Dresden this morning. One of tlie most pleasing feature# of Mr J. C. Williamson's pantomime is iliv bright corps of children ussociaaed with it, and this year's attraction, "Huniptv Dumpty," is to furnish an example - of juvenile cleverness. ■ The children present the nursery rhynun ballet, which they find so congenial an occupation that it amounts to nothing more than a delightful nightly romp on their part. " Nothing," says a Melbourne paper describing this feature, "could be more charming in conception. All the heroes and heroines with whom infancy is familiar, from Bed Riding Hood and Little Miss -.Muffetb to the Froggi© who went a wooing, Jack the Giant Killer, Cinderella, and the Prince, are given corporal Mguitieauce. and adults will find pleasure in the quickness of recognition shown by their youthful companions." '* Humpty Dumpty" in it* general scheme mikes as strong an appeal to young folk a* to children of a larger growth. It is particularly wealthy is examples of animated and intelligent nature, aw exemplified in Measrs Queen and Le Brun's baby elephant—said to bo even more amusing than their horse in "Mother Goose" —and other representations of the animal kingdom both on land and in the vasty deep. On© of tho excursions taken on the extravaganza is a submarine one,, where the children again illustrate natural history. Ilut the pantomime achieved its phenomenal mjccc-s in Australia a-s much on its comedy as its spectacle. Til*.' serins of burlesques in which Mr Bert Gilbert ami Mr Victor Loydall figure as King and Queen must, from all accounts, be extremely diverting. The only performance will bt- given on Monday evfuing at the Theatre Royal.