HUMPTY-DUMPTY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 4 September 1908, Page 5

HUMPTY-DUMPTY.

The box plans will- be opened at H 1.. Jones' this. (Friday morSing). One r< w?fv St PleasmS features of Mr J. U Williamson's pantomime is the bright.corps of children associated with it, and this year's: attraction, "Humptv Uumpty,' ls to furnish-an example of luvemle cleverness. The children present the nursery, rhymes ballet, which iney nnd so congenial an occupation that it-amounts to nothing more than" *xt te htfV, 1 mgh% romp on their part. Nothing," gays a , Melbourne paper describing this feature, "could be more charming in conception. AH the heroes and heroines with whom 'infancy is Ti a£- <rßed R^ing. Hood and Little Miss Muffett to the.Frpggie who went awooing, Jack, the Giant Killer, and.the Prince, are °rven corporal significance, and adults will find pleasure in the quickness of recognition shown by their youthful companions.^' "Humpty-Dumpty" in its general scheme makes as strong an appeal to young folk as to : children of a larger growth. It is particularly wealthy^in examples of animated and : intelligent ■uature, as exemplified in Messrs Queen ; and Le Brun'si- baby elephant—said to be -even more amusing 'than their horse in ' 'Mother-• Goose —and - other representations of the-animal kingdom both on land and in ihei/vasty .deep. -Ono of the excursions taken on the Extravaganza is a-submarine one, where the children again illustrate natural history. . But- the pantomime achieved its' phenomenal, success in Australia as -much on its comedy as its spectacle/ The series of burlesques in which Mr Bert Gilbert amd Mrr Victor Loydall figure as King and Queen must, from all accounts, be extremely diverting. Tho first performance w.ill be given ion Wednesday next and on Thursday*lvvo performances will be given.' -' •■". .