LONG TACK SAM.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18406, 12 June 1925, Page 11

LONG TACK SAM.

WILLIAMSON ENTERTAINERS.; The famous Ckinesb.. entertainer, ■.Long, ;Tack Sini; Who is supported by an'entirely, new' company of artists,, selected' during liis . recent-visit to China,, will commence aishort season, of eight nights and two matinees at. tho Theatre'Koyal on Wednesday evening;, "next- The.ieturn visit' of Long "Tack. Sam (o Australia proved to be .. a sories ot ; triumphs, ciitics being" unanimous in\declar- : ing the.new. show as ''even hotter.than the 1 lar epeaisiity of juggling." "tad bakaeihg,. . jnagic, -.Chinese, .-down juggling, original • watoi-Bp'irihirig and other.,, novelties.."'.:;, The <'A^,", Melbourne, said: "Perhaps ,the,fin.. est-.all-round-;vaudeville bill ever,-submitted; to ' theatre-goers . was , presented, by ■Taok Sam and Company.' .' .was; crowded" in every -.part,and ct-ery item was', encored again and 'again. ,• 'When:'the purr tain fell: on- the last sensational act- of .the. evening there ■ was" such a sustained • etbrm of applause as is seldom heard in any. Mel. bourne theatre.'"' The vaudeville :company supporting Long Tack Sam are all artists selected from" the J.. C. "Williamson .Sydney and Melbourne theatres. Direct from/Paris are the' Nbvelle Brothers, musical acrobatic oJowns, •whose act''includes a clever'imita- ' lion of tho • quaTrel, and reconoiha- | tion of two birds. Other, attractions are Enrol and Addison,' arid, Gertrude Mitrcnga, clrissioal and. speciality dancers, the. Royal . illusionist, Chris Charlton", :is/-assisted by Dorothy Browne in ('Deceptions ' ol 1925," and Moran and Wiser, hat spinners,.in 'All in Pun." Mr A. G. Froßt will conduct the specially-ielected orchestra. A brilliant singer with tho ; company is Arthur Mayes, basso cantante. Tho company had "an cxceptionally «ucce3Sful season in Auckland, and also last week in Diinedin, whilo. during, show week the theatre was crowded at every performance. The critic of • tho "Star,". Auckland, says:—"Auckland has been particularly fortunate in receiving visits from picked aats of international fame, but none could have- possibly been better or greater than the sixth company.of vaudeville which opened at Hi» Majesty's Theatre to a'.'house that was: packed to the doors." The. box plan for the season opens oh Monday morning at The Bristol. . . ■ '. . ,