BRILLIANT REVUE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 210, 21 September 1937, Page 8

BRILLIANT REVUE

Montague Show Gives Us Something Different Something out . of the ordinary in vaudeville entertainment was presented in Hastings laet' night when the Montague Show opened a fiojjr-night session in the Municipal Theatre with a variety entertainment, "Let's'Go Places," produced by Mr Lewis Marks, of England, with a cast headed ,by 3Ir. George Doonan, the London comediam f The curtain rises on a scene at the wharfside where the liner Stirlone Castle is berthed ready to leave on a world cruise. It is on this veesel that the company leaves to "go places," and from tne pqrtholes of the ship' vivacious girls sing "Au Revoir, We're Off," as the voyage begins.. The next scenes show the promenade deck on board after the liner ,is out at eea, and incidents below decks in cabins, "crowded" and "de luxe," until, in the final scene, " the last night on board," the entire company again assembles to sing as the curtain falls. The cast was Headed by Mr George Doonan, the comedian, who keeps things moving during the cruise, Miss Barbara Yernon, the American comedienne, who makes her first appearance in New Zealand with this company, the Darmora troupe of dancing girls, and Miss Catheriue Stewart, the vivavious and smiling comedienne last secn in New Zealand six years ago. Others whose talents add variety to the programme are the inale quartetfl "The.Four Blenders," who give renderings of popular songs into a microphone which does not distort their voices as so many do; Miss Alma Mackie, whose dances are of an original nature; the Dawn Sisters, and the "Two Rogues," the rough-and-tumble dancers, who will be Temembered by those who saw the film 4Brewster's Millions"; and Jewel^ and Warris. Items which displayed the xich. costuming and scenery, the beauty of the ehorus girls and whieh gave full play to thc delightful voices, were the snow scene, "Winterfcime in Norway," headed by Miss 31argaret Kelly, the soprano, who will be remembered in Hastings ior her portrayal of Kate in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "The Pirates of Penzance" not long agoj and Southern Roses, a delightful scene in which beautifully-costumed girls, headed again by Miss Margaret Kelly, dance in a picturesque tableau, at the conclusion of which they come to the footlights to throw rosobuds among the audienco. The night-club scene in a New York roof-garden, acted against a silhouetted background of illuminated skyscrapers, and followed immediately by a prescntation of that sensational dance ,so popular in Europe but seldom seen here, the can-can dance will linger long in tlie memory. The impersonations of a number of well-known screen stars given during the night-clnb scene were cleverly portrayed, as .were the three scenes in an Eastern harem where girls in dazzling drapings parade before their rnastor, an Eastern potentate, to the accompanimont of appropriate mystic music and a particularly pleasing male solo. The lighting effects were cspeeially noticeable in this scene. The sarae programme will be presented again to-night, and to-morrow and Thursday nights a complete change of programiue entitled "This Year of Carnival" will be presented.