"ODDS AND ENDS”

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 234, 28 June 1921, Page 6

"ODDS AND ENDS”

VARIETY AT THE CONCERT CHAMBER. The company that played “Sinbad the Sailor ” having disbanded in Tsew Zealand after a highly successful season, some of its members have formed a combination for the supply of popular e«rortainment. They made their first Wellington .appearance as members of the new organisation at the Concert Chamber last night, and presented a programme rather aptly entitled ‘ Odds and Ends.” Handicapped to some extent by an inclement night, and a halt-fillei hall they vet managed to provide a very excellent entertainment, gay, tuneful and amusing. The 'programme franklv was vaudeville, the different numbers not pretending even to the slender thread of continuity that is to be detected in musical comedy or the ultra modern musical extravaganza. ( That it was vaudeville of a high order of merit is sufficiently guaranteed by the quality of the performers, who may be regarded as old friends of Wellington audiences. Some of the items C^ D '" from the pantomime, where they had bv no means exhausted their power to provoke mirth. Others were new, and all were good. At the head of the IM may be placed the contributions of Messrs. Edgley and Dawe, the U\O and "Igo” of "Sinbad the Sailor Ihe extraordinarily flexible, ludicrously spectacled face of' Dawe will be ’•cmemlieml by every person who- enjoyed the pant mime, 'and last night’s audience wn keenly appreciative of this couples work. The story of the P- U « h do "" the stairs was repeated, and there wa a wildlv funny scene where the pan, with the assistance of Mr. Dan Agar (ex-Mrs. Tinbad) appeared as a new "white hope” and/an amateur chailonger. A very ( upeto-date jazz and half-a-dozen other very funny numbers were to the credit of Edgley and Dawe during the evening. Mr. whodi his own gift of humour, had . tho „ alld ence singing with him in Rhino an » he was prominent m several good Misses Florence and Alys Wilson, who will be remembered as bright and graceful dancers, were prominent in the programme. They sang and danced in seuo fashion, then Miss Florence Wilson presented a pretty version of The Rose and the Thorn” dance, and later in tho programme Miss Alys Wilson was associated with Mr. Edgley in a vigorous display of clever footwork. Miss Nellie M'Guire. one of the most vivacious of soubrettes, had several successes dur n the evening. One of tb<m was Ue musical proposal. B P°*7 in which she was assisted by Mr. IXI g lev. Another, wherein all the members of the company gave her their support, was a little military extravaganza, "Continong,” full of life and frivolity. She was the central figure in a ludicrous '‘old man jazz. Mass Cectb Audibert, who has a pleasantly tuneful soprano voice, contributed several solos. Another vocalist included in the com spany was Mr. Alan Shrimpton, whose fine baritone voice was heard *0 advantage in “Hearts of Gold, and "Rest of the World Go By.” The lang iablo burlesque. "The Railway Station was a number that found work for the whole’ company, with Edgley anda™ in tho position of principal fun-makers “Odds and Ends.” as has been said, s merely vaudeville, but it decidedly is vaudeville of tho kind that pleases. The company will appear again at the con cert Chamber this evening