"COME OVER HERE."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1650, 6 January 1914, Page 5

"COME OVER HERE."

Tho revue lifts arrived in Australia. This pot nourfi of paiitoininie— rum musi* eal coir.edy—emu biiriosiiuo, has rimed, with grejit success in iiml Norf York, lint at hist. <hi? critic ili.e of Ili<! "SHiislay Times") is sparing in his praise of the new form of entertoinineut. offered by the Wilsinmton That critis says:—

It is so Joiift isincc , (lie firm of .). 0, Williamson, Ltd., t!;»vc< us anyHiina mors than a revival or two in Sydney at Christmas time, that it scpms rat her like looking :s y.\(t hors-; in the month 1o tui'ii thfi n-ilioal lens nj)o» tin> rn-.nv flaws in tho wrfovHiancp. lToivever, iho critic's lot is ftf necessity an unpirai'i<iuri one, and'this reviewer ran see mi other course but to drop a lilac's ball into the tliMtrie.il liallot-bcx njiaiiisf "Com-fi Over Here" when taken in its; entirety.

In tiio first nlaop tliebook was far' from good, and with this liaiidicap tfe> start, it is small wonder tiiat t./vo oliTCi'taiiinie'it to drafv. _ Asain, too much detail was prowtTcl into the(limey, struclnro oh whifbtiin rrv«» was based, stithtinst the anpetito _and > onaendering in one n frolinj; brhcreiJ , re* signation". M.J<»iiifi<'t'iit|v sfasp'? « s M ' !fl the entire ])roductirm, it wa. , . linahl? in domoro then partially hold thfi itHcrosl v and one cnukl not lifllp !■* seo such an obvious' aw.Riiiil , . »\ work on tho part of all conccwicd achieve aueh poor vcsnUs. The must ■oi>l«t:indin;' features of .•'Coimv.Ovf.r. Honv' wpmed to bo the quantity ofiwideivts and lavisli scenic settings, fet <>if with slnitlin;.' effect by the corrcspondingl.v scanty at' tire.cf the ladies.

Toe mush jwliise. eniimtt be given t« the. gorftWJiisness ami excellent taste of the scs'iHC b(it*..iii3S ami (Irt-sin-;- Kverj scono was a r.piiwdkl oolour-pncm. pleasing to the oyes, and ok'verl.v devised, 'Jii'o iiiiosl effect of all was iimnher of Act 11. In this scone the audience afo shown tlie, K]>«tflclo of.a rara. between a motor-car and n train. J lie stage is pluHgctl in semwlnrknoss, niie at the luwk. aloiia n \viwli«;j mounfnni ro:ul, the lights of i«-n siviftly, moving vehicles ra« »o wen comma rearor ami nearer, rfipid!,- grownia kr-'cr us thoy advance, until hotli lowimotivo and motor mnkleiily Mirst upon Uio st-ago in realistis life-siKcd form. This entire effect was skilfully camoq o«t, mifl must have taken a tmnendouf amount of careful lighting and thonsni to -"leffeftt. Sccmc VII of the fir?t a«t, a Venetinl feU' at Miinlyjn _lhe ye.ir inflO was also remarkalilo lor its Iwanty aiicl for tliP fact that ft nmnhor ef iiirls walked down :i brood flijrlil.of steps into a miniature lake, and then _fnmpletely disappc-ared fwan sislit, as ii Ilia water' hud literally swallowed them ;ip._ f)\cio wofe only two of the best iiiciderts Thcro were ctnu;il<'sn others— tou many by far to sot forth here- but liie wont , showing Circular Quny nt div-few-it rtwKeß of its devvJcpi.MMil from 1701) until the present day, and the l/:ulet eallwl "Tli» Kiowers of Allah -, _ «lfo *(■-•- serve Sjiwia! mention an J jMaife^ As regards tlio porfornwre, each and c\cry owe worked their hardest to mak« the 'revue a ancoc-ss. By far the. most praiseworthy performance ram that or Mr. J.i«k Cannot. Tin's actor was the lifo and boml of the perfornwiwo, antl to scored ilio only wallj- his personal ovation of the oroniMß with IIIS "uuiCffS? "Tjjft Littio permaa , -