"LET'S GO PLACES"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 211, 22 September 1937, Page 7

"LET'S GO PLACES"

Scintillating Perlormance Delights Crowd NEW REVUE TO-NIGHT With spectacle, melody and Strikmgly - clever sgecialists "Let's Go Places" revue, the opening programme . of the Montague Show, swept along in Ontertaining style at the Hastings Municipal Theatre last evening. It Wai indeed a very khppy combination of talent and WaS Swung across to give a .dashihg happy-family eflect. The opening scene of the embarkation for a pleasure cruise wdrked up to a brilliant full-stage with all the star artists coutributing, aud the joui'iifey to "placeS " Was proceeded With in happy f ashion. A beautiful winter-time scCne iu Norway, With sleigh aud Skating ballCts, and a strilcing pehgiiin danCe provided full scope for Madame | DafMora. aiid hCr froupe td show of their best: This. was but oue 6f inaiiy gioridus SCeneS in which - gdrgedus costamiiig and lavish stage SCfenery featured unusually promineutlys -A series of specialties by Gatherihe Stewart aud, The Blenders provided ,a musical for another Darmora dance. Th© comedy dancers, the Dawn Sisteis, provided one of the big hits of the night, for it was a riotous romp that appealed immerisely to tlid audience. George Ddonan was in great fettle as the fun-leader, being ably supported by the American tpair, BeU AVarrisS aud Jimmy Jewell. In addition to his tirdless joking Doonan dembnstrated Casy versatility by a series of clever character impersonations. The Twd Rogues put ou a new fake fall and tapdancing act, and Alma Mackie did some slirprising fhythmic exercises. Brilliance and dash distinguished the programme from end to end. "This Year of Carnival," WliiCh Is to be staged this evening and again to-morfow night, impresses above all. for its cumulative magnificence of production. Not only does the curtain go up on a set of truly dazzling spiendour, but as the scene develops further colourf'ul revelations superimpose to crown the panorama With. brilliance. The "Carnival of Chess," "Carnival in Spain," "A Few Moments in Yienna," are ntimbers of the utmost harmony of colour and motion. The gorgeouelyfrocked ballet of the girls^ the vivacious dancing of Madame Darmora 's Hunga» rian girls, the charming soprauo of Margaret Kelly, all contribute to the beauty and spiendour of the scenes. The Hungariau troupe also delights by doing a real Hungariau folk dance. There is, too, a rich measure of comedy in the show; George Doonan, Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss see to that. Axresting dance solos are given by Madame Darmora and Alma Mackie, and the Dawn Sisters, acrobatic dancers wltli a sonse of humour in every role, the Twd Rogues, Tlie Bleuders, Catherine Stewart, Barbara V ernoa and othefs add to the vaniety of the performance. But over with incessaut sparlde, it deserves a capacity audience for the ilnal nights of the season.