MARCUS SHOW

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1937, Page 6

MARCUS SHOW

BEAUTY AND GLAMOUR ■ Stage spectacles as brilliant as any. that have preceded mark the final programme of -the Marcus Show, at the; New Opera House, where the season will conclude, on Saturday night with a grand .finale. Once again the audience was captured last night by brilliant dressing and feminine beauty.Although (or because) it comes, from America,- the Marcus Show brings a rich . Oriental allurement, and ■- its feminine types seem to blend Asia and the American Continent and also the string of Polynesian islands that bind them Whether the fancy is for Asiatic, Polynesian, or American types,,- for brunette or for blonde, the connoisseur will find them all in the Marcus .Show —and it is truly named a Show because the presentation (in staging, lighting, and colour effect) is perfect, and every picture tells a story and makes its hit.-, "Girls of All the World," the opening march and tableau, went even,further than America, Asia, and : the Pacific, because it aimed to.produce .types, of beauty from everywhere. : The gorgeous effect was pursuing its stately course when suddenly the: ' acrobats (Harold Boyd and his Jigsaws)- electrified the proceedings with an -amazing exhibition of human upside-down-on four tables. It should be said right here that these acrobats (and; they arc by no means 'theflnly ones in the Show) are a vital-; ingredient in every, programme; equally with the dancing, they supply the action that a stagepicture needs, and- -their several, appearances last night raised the audience to a high "pitch of admiration. After <* dance-and-tumble by; Art, Stanley,: Ben, McAtee put over-some smart corneay, and the sepond ( great picture ■ Lady, With the Shawl," confirmed the; audience's good opinion of Marcus,' beauty both in person and in dressing;. The; management of the shawls was so:wonderfut both individually and .collectively; that a revivedfashionm. shawlsappears to be.certain.: Sparky. Kaye, with Bobby Dyer, exhibited bloodless surgery. The. audience was .then transported to a wonderful Japanese garden after which . Harold - J3pyd was accused of raising the ■birth-rate. :-\ aTfter several W' .-teigbtv turn^ "Lousiana Haynde" scintillated ; with colour and beauty, and the girls rolled the chariot off the .stage,in,;flne,style. "Toyland" aimed more at dancing than at mechanisation; the .toys -were, passable toys but were much as throbbing humans. One ofithe. cleverest items on the programme is -The Kiss " by Sharan de. Vries; it cannot be described and needs to be seen. The stage pictures then came back, to America ("Times" Square, New York) in "Rain"; America specialises in both rains and droughts, but the drought ballet is yet to come. On, the, second part there'was-a, 'tray dance by wait-, resses incidental to a "Hollywood stage-picture. "The Ocean" has a study in mermaid beauty, but the mermaids were no more unclothdd than previously. "Love in a Slave Market represented .action as well .as colour, and; brought the audience back to the savage Orient. So. also . did...Cleopatra" in "Siren of, the Nile. '■-The .acrobats "and the closing-parade sent the audience home in good humour.