THE AMAZING MR. ROOKLYN
COMPANY'S LEVIN SExlSON Tuesday next should be a red leUer day for local amusement lovers, when this much travelled magician and his celebrity vaudeville company make their initial :bow before a Levin audience. Mr. Rooklyn himself takes up thirty minutes of each half of the programme, and vaudeville items by Ted James, comedian; Selway Sis- ■ ters, acrobats; Florence Gold, soprano; Joy Clyde, the electric :spark; Alta Lowe, musical stylist;
Keogh and Ray, lightning tappers, 1 and ifola Fontaine, premier danseuse. Ali these artists performed 011 : tlie same bill as Mr. Rooklyn on the j T?voii Theatre circuit throughout Australia, and arrived in New Zea- . land by flying-boat. One of the favourite illusions is the extraction of several .gallons of j beer from a seemingly empty cask and distributed in the audience. ' Another 'gorgeously staged illusion ; is "Cheating the Gallows" in which ; i a charming Chinese slave is con- 1 demned to death by hanging, but is , I saved by an obliging magician, j much to the amazemeiit of the : 1 crowd. I Plans are now open at Regent 'Theatre aird a :e fiLing rapidly.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 March 1946, Page 7
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188THE AMAZING MR. ROOKLYN Chronicle (Levin), 15 March 1946, Page 7
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