"Wanted.—Skates and Boots for Leghorn Pullets."—Advt. in Canadian Paper.
They need a lot of exercise in the cold weather.
AT THE PLAY.
"Cinderella."
A HORSE-SENSE OF HUMOUR.
| Pipchin | Mr. Stanley Lupino. |
| Baroness Beauxchamps | Mr. Will Evans. |
It is a very delicate task that the annual pantomime imposes upon Mr. Arthur Collins. He has to "surpass himself," but he must not do it once for all or he would rob the critics of their most cherished phrase. He reminds me of the constructors of our Atlantic "greyhounds," each longer by a yard or two than the last, each swifter by a fraction of a knot, each with a few more tons displacement, all pronounced to be the final word in scientific invention, yet all reserving something for the next time.
Certainly the present year marks an advance in one respect at least—that the grotesque and the beautiful are kept reasonably apart; the lovely colour-scheme, for instance, of the garden in Fairyland is undisturbed by any element of buffoonery. There was a revival too of topical allusiveness after the reticence proper to war-time; and the Geddes family must be justifiably flattered by their admission to a choric refrain.