THE FAMOUS N.Z. DIGGERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2459, 27 July 1922, Page 2

THE FAMOUS N.Z. DIGGERS.

TOWN HALL, FOXTON MONDAY NEXT, JULY til ST. A review of the Second Edition ol the “Box o’ Tricks.” its programme and its performers, will in a large measure serve to impress upon us the fact that we are to be favoured with a ‘better than ever’ performance from the Famous Diggers. There have been a few changes in the personnel of the company since its last visit to this town, but if newspaper criticisms and unstinted applause are any criterion, then, in the case of the Diggers, alteration'spells ‘marked improvement.’ Since the inauguration of this company, their series of programmes have been a succession of ‘one better’ attainement-, and the general opinion is that this present programme is the host achievement of any yet attempted by them. The inclusion of Frank Perryn, late understudy to Geo. Robey, at the Hippodrome. London, and the return of the old favourite, Gus Dawson, have considerably strengthened the status of the Diggers. The new programme is full of interesting and amusing items. Frank Perryn and Stan. Lawson score heavily in a screamingly funny musical sketch entitled “Washing the Baby." Joe Akilli, Frank Aforan, Tano Fama and Stan. Lawson provoke roars of laughter in “The Burlesque Fortune-teller.” The other screamingly funny scenes are:—“'ijhe Raw Recruits,” “The Afagie Hat,” and an Egyptian scene entitled “Backsheesh” serves to introduce the Dance Orientate by Gus Dawson and Stan. Lawson. The Italian impessions by Frank Perryn, “The Lighthouse Keeper” by Frank Moran, Fred. Webber’s piano sketches, go to make up a really splendid programme equal, if not superior, to the best this company has yet presented.