THE "DIGGER" PIERROTS

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 September 1919, Page 3

THE "DIGGER" PIERROTS

T^hat promises to be the best company

,that has yet visited Helensville is billed

" for the Lyric, on Saturday, October 4th. The " Digger " Pierrots now on their gVeecond New Zealand tour make their

firstjappearanoe here on that date. To

Lthpse returned soldiers who saw ' the Pierrots in their old " Eyes |v Front " show- in France or Blighty, this will need no introduction, for f?in Tano Faraa, comedian, Stan Lawson,

SNJihe clever woman impersonator, and others, will find familiar faces. Ik AH the members of the Company have

W-% een active service, and they have helped $/ to entertain the boys in France for two When the armistice was signed §>' ijyJtPnmj^JLg.vzG reorganised and went flpthroughJ^E^rmany, and from there on Ppjl tour^Kigland arid Scotland. They fpiiave yS^Jpaared in France, Belgium, iP'Gerniany. Paris, Cologne, London, EdinF burir), Glasgow, Colon, and Panama. T' On returning to New Zealand in June

V- last they undertook a tour of the bigger '-J'towns, which was the means of raising ft several thousands of pounds for the s? g^ldiersidriependents, The Company g^Brings with it an orchestra of ten instru* % ments, which itself will be a treat to K'Belensville. Stan Lawson, who takes < the part of the girl, would deceive anyone as to his ccx, and was written of by * a London critic as one of the cleverest t woman impersonators evei seen.

[ The price 3 may be b;gh, but they're ' worth it, and you can't get silk wtfrms for two pence nowadays. j.