MONKEY HIPPODROME AND VAUDEVILLE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5085, 7 February 1927, Page 2

MONKEY HIPPODROME AND VAUDEVILLE.

TO-MORROW NIGHT. Tuesday next, a't the Gaiety Theatre, Bradley’s Monkey Hippodrome and Jazz Band, supported by a powerful vaudeville company, will appear for the first time in Paeroa. A Southern papers says: monkeys excelled as .the jazz orchestra, and were, highly amusing. Dressed in coloured velvets, Jhey played drums, cymbals, and the dauble bass unde,r the conductorship of one of them. The intelligence displayed by these monkeys in keeping time with the music and playing their instruments at the proper time would put many human beings to shame,, and the ■fact yhat this jazz band performs entirely without assistance or direction “is amazing. Thomas, the trapeze artist, was, perhaps, Jhe cleverest of them all. He balanced, samersaulted, and reversed on the .trapeze bars., and also did the flying act, as capably as a human being. Weight-lifting, balancing, and wire-walking were also carried out by the monkeys. The other portion of the programme was ,ably carried out by Mr Fred Foley, who was a magician, conjurer, ventriloquist, and lightning slrtch artist in one. All his. tricks were neatly executed, and kept the audience mystified all the time he was on the stage. His ventriloquial turn was very humorous, and everyone in a good mood. Shadowgraphy and lightning sketching turns were mo.?t entertaining. This clever artist, is second to none in his line, of business. Mr Leo. Braclley’s musical selections were, not the leas* enjoyable portion of, the programme.