VARIETY REVUE COMPANY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 96, 17 January 1935, Page 4

VARIETY REVUE COMPANY

Frank Neil’s New Show Of Frank Neil’s new International Variety-revue Company, which is to open a brief season at the Grand Opera House, Wellington, on Saturday, at a matinee performance at 2.15, a northern critic wrote: “As noted entrepreneurs ami astute showmen Messrs. J. C. Williamson have made no mistake in choosing Mr. Frank Neil’s new company to inaugurate 1935 operations in New Zealand. With this attraction Mr. Neil has caught all the glamour of the days of Harry Rickards, the Fullers, Percy Dix, Harry Musgrove and A. R. (Bob) Shepard, and suffused it with the modern technique and atmosphere of to-day. He has assembled expensive acts from London, New York, Paris and Berlin. He has brought together a bevy of lovely girls who can dance and sing and fascinate. He has dressed and mounted and produced a show which will bear comparison with the best we have been privileged to see. Every desirable feature, obviously selected with his critical discrimination, finds expression in this delightful entertainment.” The artists, all new to New Zealand, include: Nice, Florio and Lubow, from the Palace Theatre, New York; Joey Porter, from the Palladium, London; Alec. Halls, from the Wintergarten, Berlin: Hope and Ray, from the Palladium, London ; Grace Har-

tington, from Daly’s Theatre, London: McDonald and Grahame, from Ziegfeld Follies; the “Three Ambassadors',” from the Alhambra, London; Les Diamondos, from the Folios Bergeres, Paris ; and Harry Lazarus, orchestra conductor from the Lancaster Square Theatre. London. The box plans are at the D. 1.0. A matinee performance will also be given on Tuesday next, Anniversary Day, commencing at 2.15 o’clock.

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