AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

"SQUIBS.” MONDAY. The story of “.Squibs” to bo shown on Monday night shows “Squibs” is a flower girl. witli a cloven orate |>avonient ‘‘bookie’’ as a lather, and a lazy good-for-nothing sister, who ha- lie-ni smitten with the deviltry of “Bully’' Dawson, who allows no one to interfere with his coarse pleasures. “.Squibs" light-hearted and spirited, blooms like n rose in this garden of weeds. On an errand of mercy she butts into romance in the bulky form of Charlie l.cc of the Metropolitan Police Force. ’I luur first day out. and an experience at a roller skatin'! rink, is painful enough weld Cupid's chains, hut Charlie ,-kes his girl down into the country to see his old people, where all goes well until his mother (an ox-rook). ascertains to her horror that ",Squibs” iouly a- common flower-girl, and not. as she' was in scrvic . “Squib'" full of spirit hits hack, and not even the pel - suasions of Constable bee can persuade t!iL“ prl to return to the lowly thatched cottage. But Jove moves mountains, arid at length Charlie linds his way ha-a to the slummy house and his beloved “Squibs” to lind her struggling in the of “Bully" Dawson. There us 1 nival light. ill which "Bully get' hm dim and as Ihe lovers clinch over th I, „lv „l the defeated bully the tinkle m wedding hells may he tenderly imagined. THE FAMOUS DIGGERS. PiMNCKSS TiIFATiIK. HOKITIKA. \YF.DNKSDAY XKXT. 1 1 one were to draw comparisons between tile various travelling shows ot their kind that have toured New /calami duriim the past few years, if must he handed "to The Diggers as being the ■■ace” uf merriment purveyors. Dining (he birth of each individual production, the important, ouestion that

concerns the Diggers’ manage is ••what can we do to give our audiences a night of laughter?” The foundation of the new production ni the Diggers. i he revue "Tip Top” is laughter, laughter. laughter. Never has such an upper liouslv i’linuv programme been presented I.V Inis' wisely discriminating laamig"iiient—in truth, some of tin' comedy is so absurdly hum,nous as to really'make the proverbial cat laugh. ~; | V ;,nd as elite a- ever, the irrepressible Joe Yalli "pleads guilly" lo the charge of being the principal side •splitter. Tlie perspiration of lunnros'ii . siiaj dv iioor- from him. In a dozen -!., *, hes.' iui"idud*.- and d,|<>i«. his rite ti■ ■ ’-1 i;i■, r.i'c-e’icc intersperses the 'Revim. and well, one simple lias to laugh. \hly supporting Yalli in Ihe comedy line are .limmv Norton. Gus Dawson and Ta no Man". The former does a elevei' iiapcr.-oiial ion oi Oscar Asche, nr,! exlirniclv fuum in his character M ,ng. "l"Cat .Married l" a AYidow.” v.gvic (l ijis Dawson m the hurlc-qiie role ~i "Adelina I’atti” is a scream. Ti.e "Supcrli Sl\" ibllh't nave be-c.-aic a poimlar adinnet ol this talented oi"/aiii'at ion and arc a veriiablc eedit to New Zealand beauty and lerpairharml. Tliey feature elfectivelv in throughout the show, particularly in "The Awakening of flic Flowers.” "Dreamy Arnhy." "Dance o' Mania.” and others. Tlie vocalists of ihe dniw have some new and nlonsing duet' and -olns to ■ dfer. while the Diggers' orchestra Imped an air of rompleteues' to a show which i-' marked down as the greatest Digger success of all times.