AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13709, 25 September 1908, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

HUMPTY-DUMPTY

The maker of paiitomhic has no such difficult tack to pciform as that. \i mull couirouLs .-the playwright. The latter urns: fivute, witiio the 'former has merely to devise a framework upon which the producer may hang die products of mgeuuiiy ana r-„6oure<.ts, and no it is with .Ur Gitald Coventry ithu producer) that a laige tliatc of the success of *'HumptyiJuiupty," >l. C. Willjauiejju'j? next, j" traction, is due. 'lhc pantomine is mid to b» a scries of glittering and goig ons spectacles, lull ot b,libit, and inarcnu-, and Miih plenty of cati-hy uougs. The sioiy —what there is ot it—" lias nothing. 10 do wjlh the rase," whether HiunptyDiimpty fell off a wall or soared with wings 10 the abode of tJie fauies innkii> 110 djtfvrenci-. The limst of, ftpecialnivs aiid aitueiioiio which, go ; o make up the bhow «oiinl hawe -been., intiouucevi ju»t the s.uiie. Hiimpty-Duinpty has the jioa- r of l» ing able to achieve -whatever his wb-h niitv tail upon, and he natunuy oe sires to many King folium's beautiful dauglil -i . j lie irtonarch decrees ' that lie who can make linn laugh will niu ilie princ.i-» tor his .bnde, ami the .opportunity 10 ilitrofitice a nuinl>er of vuriety tuiiis tc fimy availed here, IniL the king io not moved to laughter then by, but contiuu<.«s his mournful Dumply wills the king to laugh anu in do t -s so. But, tho wily monarch cvadti". the award and ;hiiioiiih(.s that ho who shall tind a certain ling that h<u> be-cn Io?t will be tiie succi?t>lul suitor. 'Uia i/> wlurc the opportunity comtfi in. He—or tin I —finds the ring thanks to the spirit ot geueiosity, whicti is indeed veiy ;utcoiiiinodat iug (in jiantomiuej, and ifo Bu dolph and the princtbs ate united, bnt not before variclv turns,' bailed, inarches, and spectacular attractions have passed under rcvu-w. .Mr Williamson o sompanv have'been selected from al! parts of the world, and include Mr Bert Gilbert 1 the cekb;ated Knglish comedian), Messrs Harry Shine. Victor l.oydall, C. Hnwani. X. K.it-iv, Gooige Young, Queen and. LeHrun, Mim> s Mabelle Morgan, Nance Maher, Olga Gr.y, Inno Dillon, Prcrty Pitftton it iid Biii.riiv Kngluih. The oiwnini,' i:ik.« pla<at the Thealu* ltoyal on Monday e\< ning.