The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-12-13
MOTHER GOOSE"
DAZZLES CAPITAL
Brilliant Spectacle Thrills
Audience at the National.

The stage of the National Theater
disclosed last night the second Drury
Lane pantomime which has come TO the
American Capital from London. Like
THE Sleeping Beauty and the Beast
this pantomime is ostensibly designed
for children, and the children who We're
present last night-a hundred or there
abouts-laughed until they could laugh
no more. But poor old Mother Goose
was set I'm q company SO grand and IN
scenes SO beautiful that even the adults
who had forgotten all about her ard her
~son Jack. followed the spectacle intent
IL. until AT last the old woman, Jack,
Jill, the goose that layed the golden
eggs. and all the others of that ad-
venurous company retired to live hap
PLY ever after.
Old Mother Goose.
When she wanted 10 wander.
Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander.
SO ran the old story. The new one
establishes the venerable dame as the
only cOntented person In the world.
makes her the subject Of a dispute
between the fairy Heartsease and the
Demon King. taints her happiness with
untold wealth in the form OF golden eggs
and finally makes her happy again
through the love Of her daughter Jill
for the brave young Colin. Marches,
ballets, transformations. flights through
the air over the heads OF the audience,
overwhelming symphonies OF color and
comedy so laughable that last night the
audience blocked the progress OF the
panJomime in order 20 have its laugh
out, embeliished the nursery rhymes be-
Nonu the h&s pieSt dream of the child
The old story needed only four lines OF
20 HnN Hn Hrara-. ~
hausts the resources OF the stage.
The comedy proved. indeed. the most
successful element of the pantOmime
Joe CaWthorne as Mother Goose, Harry
Kelly as Jack, her son; W. H. MacarI
as scottish lord; and Clifton Crawford
as the mayor of Chatham. ana Mother
GoOse's landlord all shared in the fun
making and its success. None of them
was ever so effective in Washington be-
tore. They have TWO burleSQues-it was
this feature OF the entertainment which
blockaded the plot last night-one OF
Gillette's Secret Service and the other
on the Aerial Ballet, were applaudel
without stint
Among the purely spectacular features
or the entertainment the features were
a hall OF gold; ballet revealing the
glories OF art nOuveau, a dance by a
score OF young women i'm the costumes
OF American Indians; rOllicking song
Girls VIII BE Girls and BOYS VIII BE
Boys, the mountain of fire. and the
land Of frost and ice, a ballet of pansies
ending with the aerial ballet of the
Crigolattis. with the premiere flying
far out into the theater over the heads
of the audience distributing carnations
and a transformation .'COntentment. ID
The brisk songs are numerous The
dancing is almost incessanU. The com
edy nearly exhausted the audience. And
the spectacles We're evidently quite as
dazzling 10 the audience as those OF
'"rhe Sleeping Beauty and the Beast"
Ia the audience were Senior PulidO
charge of the Venezuelan legation, anC
a party. Captain Matthews and Captain
Leonard. of the Marine Corps, and 3
party. and large party of army ans
navy folk 1890 A.