N. I. Stages Pantomime.

From Our Own Correspondent

Norfolk Is., July 2.

ON June 24, a remarkable pantomime was produced at the Rawson Hall for the benefit of the hospital, which serves us all in illness, Mrs. Geoff Long who loves doing this sort of thing and does it all herself — rehearsing her company, making all the elaborate costumes and playing a part into the bargain—procured the book of “Sing a Song of Sixpence,” built in other items, as is customary in the production of pantomime all the world over, and made a wonderful success of it before a crowded audience.

Everything went with a swing and without a hitch —ballet, chorus men and everything—but the outstanding suc cess of the evening, if one may be dis covered where all were so good, was Mrs. Hogarth—well-known on our con cert platform for her flexible, coloratura soprano voice and her gifts as a com medienne —in her role of Madame Re ject in the Village Concert.

With her hair screwed up in a little “washing knob” on the top of her head and dressed as though she had put on the clothes of a fifth-rate opera star in the dark, she sang an operatic aria in a most convulsing style—dreadfully off key and accompanied by appalling trills and extravagant gestures that mystified and shocked her small daughter Pauline (“Pops”), aged just seven; who, clad in the mauve satin suit of a page, with her pale gold curls tied behind her head and her hazel eyes bright with distress, stood in the prompt corner wringing

her hands with agony, wagging her head in time with her mother’s head, singing voicelessly in accompaniment to Madame Reject’s wild flights of song.

She smiled very doubtfully when laugh ter and loud applause brought the diva back for an encore, and was obviously very glad indeed when the curtain fell on the strange performance. “Pops” was certainly one of the attractions of the evening.