“SWITZERLAND”

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 185, 2 May 1940, Page 5

“SWITZERLAND”

Returning’ To Wellington This Month

J. C. Williamson’s picturesque ice show and ice ballet, "Switzerland,”' will begin a brief return season in the New Opera House, Wellington, on the afternoon of Saturday, May 1.1. From the moment the curtain rises on "The Girls and Boys at Play” number til] it falls for the last time on "Viennese Memories," an admirable and memorable ballet on the ice, there is never a weak moment in "Switzerland.” The principals of “Switzerland” are Megan Taylor, world champion ice skater, who whirls like a Valkyrie on skates in.Aa glorious exhibition of free skating, and glides enviably in the intricacies of a gypsy dunce; Phil Taylor, who gives skilful disjilays of stilt-skating and bnrrcl-juniping, and dances with the dainty Elsie Heathcote; the clean-limbed MacKinnon sisters, who epitomize tlie poetry of motion in graceful pair skating; and Eddie Marcel, flic compere of the entire show- —but all these could not make “Switzerland” a complete success without the brilliant support of the other performers, not so often seen, though litlle inferion in action.