Revue Company Popular

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 14

Revue Company Popular

r pHE personality of the entertainers in the Neil-Williamson revue company, “New Daces,” continues to delight Aucklanders, and other towns and cities to be visited by the happy com bination may expect something quite out of the ordinary. The show these international stars put on is a whirl of fun and frivolity, likely to counteract the worst fit of depression theatregoers may be suffering. Joey Porter, a diminutive English comedian has a flair for dashing on at unexpected moments, with monkey tricks, clever mimicries and subtle “insinuendo” of the brightest kind; Alec Halls, with a perfectly “wooden” face, a few hats, a trombone, a dressing table and a set of drums, does the most absurd things, speechlessly, while his feet falter through hilarious dance steps; Nice. Diorio and Lubow, present crazy dance steps in perfect unison; Leslie Ross, Nat Hope, Doreen Ray, Cora Whitwell, Grace Hartington, Russell Callow, the Three Ambassadors (a musical whirl of whistling, accordion and piano harmony), McDonald and Graham (tap dancers who pirouette), Ted Simpson, Harry Lazarus (musical director), and a shapely Australian ballet help the show along merrily. The Diamondos Trio of Parisian poseurs, cloaked in glittering dust, pose, hand-balance and bend gracefully to music and comedy —a fine show.

Seven-year-old Virginia Weidley’s first role under her new Paramount contract was assigned to her recently. She will be in “Dather Brown, Detective,” in which Paul Lukas and Gertrude Michael are featured. Virginia Weidley is the new child actress over which Paramount executives became enthusiastic when she recently finished the role of Europeana in “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.”