“ HUMPTY-DUMPTY ” GOING STRONG.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 933, 23 January 1908, Page 18

“ HUMPTY-DUMPTY ” GOING STRONG.

Melbourne playgoers all seem to have struck the same bright idea with regard to “ Humpty-Dumpty,” which was voiced by one enthusiastic admirer of it after the curtain fell one evening last week. “ You want at least a week,” he fervently explained to his no less appreciative companion, “to see this show properly. Begin with a visit specially for the wheel —it’s worth it, then one for the ballets and one for the march of nations at the end. Gilberts railway station scene requires a fourth all to itself and you can eagi y put in another pay'ng attention to his business and Harry Phydora’s alone.

After that you can devote a sixth visit to making sure that you have missed nothing in the previous five.” And that practice appears to be generally coming into fashion, for since it started its career, “Humpty-Dumpty” has gone on not merely maintaining its hold on public favour, but materially strengthening it, and there has literally not been a seat vacant in the huge auditorium since the opening n-ght. Never has there been such a rush since the theatre was erected. So far “ Mother Goose ” has been left badly behind.