MICKEY MOUSE’S BIRTHDAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 104, 4 May 1934, Page 6

MICKEY MOUSE’S BIRTHDAY

CELEBRATIONS AT THE REGENT Wah Disney’s lovable little rodcut, known to everyone as Mickey Mouse, celebrates his fourth birthday to-mor-row. The happy gathering is to be held at the Regent Theatre, where the management has a most unique programme of attractions arranged that must surely please all children between the ages of five and 95. An enormous cake, bedecked with icing, roses, bells, and other nice things, is on view in the window of’ Messrs McGruer’s, Ltd, At 3.30 o’clock this afternoon, and again at 7 p.m., Mickey and Minnie, in person, will cut up the cake, and put it into bags. These will be handed out to all the boys and girls who attend either matinee celebrations. Altogether there are four birthday performances —two to-morrow, one at J0.,30 a.m. and the other at 2.15 p.m. The same to be repeated on Monday and Tuesday afternoons. At all matinee performances will be presented that charming 1934 pantomime which has been in preparation for the past five weeks at Miss Vivienne Healy’s studio. Miss Healy has spared no effort to make every participant well versed. There are songs, dances, aud ensembles, and the playette is entitled “The Magiii Forest.” The Regent stage wi’d resemble a fairy glade when the following juvenile artistes take the stage in the multi-coloured costumes: Mavis Alain waring, Patricia Davis, Pat White, Denise Morgan, Beth Addenbrookc, and little three-year-old Agnes White. Other songsters are Joan Abraham, Isabel Langman, Ellen Longstaff, Elsie Reed, Betty Hirst, Hazel Dunn, Norma White, and Pat Benefield. Dot AlcDougal will be featured . in the modern version of “Whose Afraid of the Big Black Wolf,” while other characters will be Sibil Liley, Dawn Dow, Esmc Turner, Nerida Holman. In the Huntsman ballot, Aiiss Betty Ball is the soloist. The pictorial programme comprises Aiickey and Alinnie Mouse ic their latest cartoon, the final diapter of “The Lost Special” serial, and the wonder picture, “Tom Sawyer,” which features that lovable child actor Jackie Coogan. To-morrow afternoon the latter picture will be substituted Ly “Cinderella’s Fella,” which features the popular Afarian Davies.