... ROTHERHAM 'CINDERELLA' Dl RCY M. TURNER has always successfully contrived to present excellent pantomimes, and this year his production at the Regent is as pretty and lively as ever. Kay Hamilton is a captivating Prince Charming and her singing of such songs as Every Day of My Life, Blue Star. and the popular Have You Ever Been Lonely? are given with real verve She sings also with lovely ...

... NORWICH 'THE SLEEPING BEAUTY' CYRIL FLETCHER'S The Legend of the Sleeping Beauty opened at the Hippodrome on Christmas Eve for a twice-daily season. This captivating production is a contrast to the humdrum course of music hall pantomimes, with Julian Dove's book and music, enlivened by Gordon Hol- dom's choral arrangements of traditional airs, and Nina Walton's choreography well suited to ...

... IPSWICH 'BABES IN THE WOOD' BABES IN THE WOOD, the first pantomime to be presented at the Hippodrome since the theatre came under the control of Will Hammer, looks like being as successful in East Anglia as it was when it was presented at a Hammer theatre in Croydon last year. Strong in comedy, it has Syd Makin as Dame Trot and A! and Vic Farrell, in particularly good vein, as the Two ...

... WEYMOUTH 'CINDERELLA' /^INDERELLA, at the Alex- v-' andra Gardens Theatre, is another example of the accepted average pantomime formula. The traditional rags-to-riches plot links a number of individual acts, so that the production savours strongly of a variety bill. Leading roles in the Cinderella plot are taken by Marjoiie Murray i as Prince Charming Vera Way, a demure Cinderella: Pat Trevor ...

... BOSCOMBE MOTHER GOOSE MOTHER GOOSE, at the Hippodrome, is a largely local production which has turned out to be one of the best pantomimes ever staged at this old theatre. It is tile last production, the Hippodrome closing next month for conversion into a dance hall. Jt is a happy show and a nostalgic show. The happiness is created by a hard-working cast. The nostalgia enters when Raymond ...

... WOLVERHAMPTON 'ROBINSON CRUSOE' TN many ways Robinson Crusoe at the Grand is a traditional pantomime, but one break with tradition has been made with great success. Hylda Baker steps into the part of the dame and serves it splen didly with a fund of genuine comcdy. She displays great skill in adapting her personal style without sacrifice to the demands of ihc new part. There is plenty of ...

... NOTTINGHAM 'DICK WHITTINGTON' ONE of the youngest principal boys this year is skater Carole Ann, appearing as Dick in Dick Whittington at the lce Stadium. This pantomime on ice opened a week before the city's stage pantomimes (on December 17), and Carole was 17 on the third day. This is the fourth icc panto mime produced by Viviennc Read, who is also responsible for the choreography. Roy ...

... EARLS COURT 'DICK WHITTINGTON' FOR Claude Langdon, who has been responsible for putting some leading variety comedians and pop singers on ice, the pantomime which opened at the Empress Hall on December 10 is a new venture. Written, produced and with choreography by Eve lield, Dick Whitlington on Ice i boasts no box-office names of the 1 calibre that have hitherto drawn the crowds to Earls ...

... EDINBURGH 'ALADDIN' DEVISED and produced by Gerald Palmer, with books and lyrics by Stanley Lloyd, choreography by Beatrice Livesey, and directed and staged by Louis Barber, Aladdin on Ice opened at Murrayfield Ice Rink on December 15. The breath-taking beauty of this show leaves a pleasant memory. The story is closely followed through many dazzling scenes, outstanding of which are the ...

... HARRINGAY LIKE all good circuses, that at Harringay begins long befire the arena itself is reached. Huge audiences like those housed at such a venue as this make themselves apparent in the trains, buses and streets as they converge, bringing with them a special anticipatory excitement of their own. And the excitement is maintained in the vasl- ness of the arena, the chailer ol the tiered ...

... LOWESTOFT 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL' CHARLES SIMON'S production of A Christmas Carol at the Arcadia has additional dialogue by Seymour Hicks and Charles Simon. It is perhaps advantageous to stress the pantomime angles, as this production does For the gossamer fabric of the Dtckcnsian aimosphcrc of ghosts, Christmas pudding and the triumph of good over evil seems to crumble when given form and ...

... LEEDS 'HUMPTY DUMPTY' THE three Leeds pantomimes all opened on Christmas Eve and undoubtedly the most popular pantomime personality in the city this season is Norman Evans, who, with Betty Jumel, Margaret Mitchell, Angela Anderson, Pauline Fleet, Kay Rose, George Arnett, Gron Davies 1 revor Kenyon, and Clement Hame- lin, make up an excellent team for Tom Arnold's Humply Dumpty at the Grand. ...