VARIETY-REVUE TO-NIGHT

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 98, 19 January 1935, Page 22

VARIETY-REVUE TO-NIGHT

Frank Neil’s International Company Frank Neil’s new International VarietyRevue Company will open a brief season at the Grand Opera House, commencing with a matinee to-day at 2.15, and to.be continued thereafter nightly at 8, with matinees on Wednesdays and SaturdaysOf the company a northern critic wrote: “As noted entrepeneurs and astute showmen, Messrs. J. C. Williamson have made no mistake in choosing Mr. Frank Neil’s new company to inaugurate .1035 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. (Bob) Shepherd, and suffused it with the modern technique and atmosphere of to-day. He Jias 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, Loudon ; Alec. Halls, from the Wintergarden, Berlin; Hope and Ray, from the Palladium, London: Grace Hartington, from Daly’s Theatre, London ; McDonald and Grahame, from Ziegfeld Follies; the “Three Ambassadors.” from the Alhambra, London-; Les Diamondos. from the Folies Bergeres, Paris; and Harry Lazarus, orchestra conductor, from the Lancaster Square Theatre, London. The box plans are at the D.1.C., and the plans for to-night’s performance will be on view at the Grand , Opera House this afternoon.

A special matinee will be given on Tuesday (Anniversary Day).