Show SOON ION PREPARING R CHRISTMAS I PANTOMIMES I Tales and Nursery i nes Engage British Theatrical Men Ct j J Cable to 10 The e 1 Dec lee 2 The 2 The great busi- busi j m the C Christmas pan- pan mf'S mris s now no in ill lull full swing up and hJ War Var has d done don one noth noth- 0 r with it Khaki pan- pan b fn songs are arc said to be rather of Favor with both managers and ander er who de declare lare that the blighty haa bet done to death But one ware 1 are sure to be big successes cod iod iou example has hag the ch chorus rus nt n t want a lot of flags a a flying t want our your bi bit big brass bras bands dont don't want t t lot tot of or speechifying l tave don dont don't t want a lot of waving don dont don't t want a 3 lot of oC interfering hen we weve we've IP f fely crossed the foam w va do want to find gl girls ls weve we've left behind hen we all come marching home e riter is Lieutenant Tharpe of R H RT r. r C C. C and the composer R R. o 0 Is also with the colors melodies melodies melodies-an an offshoot of irrie are ime-are are m-are are going going- to be a feature of i IA number of pantomimes The Thes s are curiously haunting and if the theIs Is have little sense at t any rate they e virtue of novelty There is I Instance tance Kaake Hula Hickey framing C back bacle to you my Hulu ou 00 do de the sea at Waikiki uen will witt also be heard about that C mysterious land Dixie and tt tue tucky ky y will not be forgotten for mu- mu hall hail favorites say that the cho chorus t a long long way to my home is absolutely bewitch bewitch- I is' is L C hour bour hit bit is We Were re all aU I. I marching along in a row row v line fine chaps wi heather in our caps d' d the land where the bluebells grow row anther another TV way ay Andre Charlot Chariot one busiest managers in London is ged on three Christmas i- i at at i the Comedy the Apollo and Sl Shaftesbury First he is busy with musical things things ho he obi ohto ob- ob i t to the term revue revue for for which tas last engaged a committee of four ors headed b bj by one of the most comedy writers of the day dar isa ting as chairman or editor bel of composers have ha l been een ged t to tp turn out the music en Chere there is he A Apollo 1 where here on on 21 Chariot Charlot presented a a. don dou- ou- ou The principal item is a wordplay word cord play in three acts entitled U A A 4 Pierl Pier- Pier l hi of Italian origin origin with ciby Victor Monti Preceding Arots A Arots rots rot's Christmas Christmas' was pl played a bus bus- f nally ly Chariot Charlot in a association with Sacks is responsible for the Har liar auder uder musical thing at the y on December 2 2 lite zite is the new Palace I e Vanity Fair with its demon demons s stand and snowy splendors Its fairy fairyland I land and dragon fly ballet its mixture I and nursery rhymes pret- pret hor ses and broad comedy One Ono Onoe I e cleverest e-cleverest items is Two Chinned v v. v a a. sparkling burlesque on the action at His Majesty s Arthur fair gives a a. screaming imitation of lerbert ferbert Tree bew bewildered among the ch girls girla of Chu Chin Chow and andon andon andon on Keys mimics Miss LIl Lily Bray Bray- daughter of the desert with a uncanny caricature Pat to imes times is a little satire in which a athy athy athy thy makers maker's son attempts I suicide rather than give up ady their ady their housemaid The stage I res are a a. delight to the eye and I Its It's music is Finck at his brightest merriest i Lang too was thinking of I wh when n he decided on Buxell How It ow the revival of Mr Wu at strand It i is simply a clever per- per ll ilon n bv by Mr Ir Dealer Besler of the cream Joke the joke the befooling of err and the the Jester is excellently caught ang Buxell Is an Alsatian and ter of Prussia He lIe escapes from shutting a terrific cool cook up cupboard and donning his Ills cap and andi i to be duly ejected by the irater irate rate r whom the unfortunate has oid of- of d Once free he locks locIs r in the castle of an amorous and absentee ab ab absentee I ab prince flings th the royal philanderers philanderer's philanderers philanderer's philanderers philanderer's phil phil- anderer's most precious trophies of the chase over the ramparts and finally es escapes escapes escapes es- es I capes in th the ro royal al automobile When that breal breaks down he holds up the Paris express by burning a tin of petrol as asa asa asa a danger signal and finally boards it and gets over the border border border-as as the prince Maj aj Rowland R R. Gibson ibson nd Miss I i Letty Lind have delivered to and Laurillard the completed manuscript manuscript manu manu- script of their musical play pIa The rhe Dragons Dragon's Throne upon the score of which two leading composers are now engage engaged l. l J Ji In the tale which was originally Miss Linds Lind's idea an absorbing love lon interest is blended with a considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable comic element while there is plenty of opportunity for spectacular effect The action of the first act takes pl place ce in the garden adjoining the house of keeper of the Sacred Treasure situated In the Mountains Moun Moon In the second there are three scenes the first representing the courtyard courtyard court- court yard jard cf the imperial palace the second seconda t r Cl nese street and the third a corner of the fishing village of l The d l I Is III described as long ago |