ENGLISH PIERROTS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2297, 2 July 1921, Page 2

ENGLISH PIERROTS

With its clean and clever comedy, it- bright and sprightly choral effects. and all the other features that mark a bright musical programme, the “English Pierrots" are again this year meeting with big success. This popular organisation will appear in Foxton, at the Town Hall, on Tuesday next, for one night only, and will no doubt receive a

hearty welcome from theatregoer-. “Bits and Pieces" is the title of the programmes presented, which are on revue lines, and include excerpts from opera, quarteh-, latest London sketches, dances, solos, and novelty numbers. Thi- company holds many record- throughout Australasia for the length of seasons ployed, and their visit to Auckland, which has just concluded, was for seven weeks, during which period they were accorded bumper houses. With so many years before the public, the Pierrots are well and favourably known, and do not need a big lot of unnecessary booming. Many of the old favourites are in this year's teum, including the popular quartet, who, besides giving their favourite items, will be heard assisted by other members of the. company in excerpts from well-known operas. Edmund Warrington, one of the newcomers, is a producer from London, who is {Hitting on the latest English sketches. Odg of these, “A Dud Dream," will he included in the opening bill. It ran for two consecutive weeks in Auckland, and is described as one long laugh. Another feature of the programme is the Pierrot orchestra.

The companvliave just concluded a phenomenally -ucoessful season of seven nights at His Majesty’s Theatre, Dunedin, and were accorded nightly crowded houses. The Star says:—“The Pierrots present a programme that is very satisfying—“ Bits and Pieces" of clever and merry nonsense, delightful singing and instrumental music, realistic pantomime, graceful dancing, and entertaining drama in tabloid —and the show swings along from rise to fall of curtain in an exhilirating manner, with the delighted audience applauding enthusiastically, and insisting on double recalls." The box plan is at Heath’s.