"LOOK WHO'S HERE"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 135, 25 February 1918, Page 3

"LOOK WHO'S HERE"

BRIGHT THIRD EDITION. A packed house was given every Teason to enthuse at the Urand Opera House on Saturday evening, wiien the third phase of "Look Who's Here" ivas presented with all the zip and Hair thai characterises Mr. Jack Waller's ideas of performance and stage management. There was not an item in the Hoed of g-oud things that wjj.s not extremely entertaining in an artistic sense. Mr. Wailcr has dropped in to the capital ration of dressing up every number with iiglits and scenes, and titivated it up vritii bits of chorus and little catchy efi'eds, which keep the eye and ear The programme opened with i.:i orchestral evolution of "Dixie," in which the undying melody figures as an aboriginal dance, it waltz, a rag time, and emerges triumphantly as grand ctwra. After the opening vocal dash, the company, in the best spirit of burlesque, -presented the two-minute dramas that raised screams of laughter. One play which lasted three minutes hau five acts, and no character spoke more than one word in a sentence. Uregory Ivanolf played a Mendelssohn "Concerto," with an orchestral accompaniment, anil had to respond to an imperative encore. The trio, in which Messrs. Ivauolf, F. AY. Dennett, and \V. Watson were concerned, was a rare treat, even though delicately treated, snatches of the best-known Rachmaninoff "Prelude" and Rubenstein's "Melody in F" rubbed friendly shoulders with dainty rag-time ditties. The element of surprise is always alluring in nnlsic. Mr. F. W. Dennett himself, who is no end of a favourite, played with raTe brilliancy the "Prelude" aforenamed and a clever paraphrase oil the "Faust" waltz. The orchestral ensemble at the end was the "William Tell" overture, and a right merry splash the forces made ot it. Even in this number a quick ear could- catch u bar of the sailor's hornpipe from Mr. Dennett's nimble fingers when his attention should have been centred m the march of an army over snow-clad Alps. Mr. Howard Hall treated "Cigarette" with a sentimental dilletantisni that was charming, and his line big voice and burly manner were valuable in many ways throughout the evening. Jack Waller will always bo'best remembered as the leader oi the Hungarian Band, with Wylic Watson and F. W. Dennett as his coadjutors in musical crime. What they did not do to "Teunesses," "The Broken Doll," and "Oh, You Beautiful Doll," is not wortit relating, 'flic \\ nite Trio are the daintiest of dancers. Rythmical grace and the eia?i ut youth and modernity is fc.i tticiii, and there is sunshine, love, ami, laughter in the watching of them. Miss Cecilia (.{old told liicidie stunes weli, unci -Ada ■Smart and Patsy Hill assisted brightly, in the domain of burlesque there was nothing bettor on the bill than Mr. Wylic Watson's tired "fireman." His telephone gagging was high art in iow comedy. In the second Halt tlio company presented the ' castle scene from Planquette's "Lfs Cloches dc Corncville." Mr. Jack Waller was arrestingly dramatic as (jaspard the miser, aud Mr. AVylie Watson sang the music of Grenicheaux quite sweetly. A motor-car sketch that will appeal went with a scream, and the burlesque on a vaudeville show was packed with bright, healthy fun. Tin third doso of "Look Who's Here" can be highly recommended to everyone to take alter the evening meal.