“CINDERELLA”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 12

“CINDERELLA”

J. C. WILLIAMSON’S PANTOMINE To-morrow morning, at nine o "clock, the box plans will be opened at the Bristol Piano Co. for the two productions of J. C. Williamson’s gorgeous Drury Lane pantomine, “Cinderella,” which is to be staged on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock and on Tuesday evening at 8. Everyone cherishes memories >1 the glittering pantomine they saw in their childhood days—the prince and the fairy princess, the knockabout dame comedian, th c gorgeous scenery depicting scintillating lights and colours, the fairy palace, the woodland dell and the robbers’ cave, tiptoe dancing by dainty maidens with fairy wands in their hands, and bands of horrid ogres, beasts and villains who call upon the •ids of witchcraft to keep the pair of princely lovers in a healthy state of trepidation. It is said that the J. C. "Williamson, Lt., production of 44 Cinderella” is a real pantomine, and it will be presented by an incomparable •ompany of singers, dancers, comedians, and pantominists, including George Wallace, Syd Beck, Josie Melville, Dorothy Dewar, Maida Jones, Billy Maloney, Maurice Barling, Cliff O’Keefe, Julie Russell, Murray and Walton and Miriam Lester. Maurice Diamond’s beauty ballet and an army of tiny children will be seen in a aeries of beautiful dances. A beautiful spectacle, it is said, is when the fairy coach, drawn by real ponies, makes its ♦ >ppearanc« on the stage. There are •ver 80 people concerned in the proInction of “ Cinderella.