THEATRE ROYAL.

NZ Truth, Issue 75, 24 November 1906, Page 6

THEATRE ROYAL.

Fullers' Entertainers.

i ■ i Big houses have been the rule all week at Fuller's show, where fun and comedy and sweet sentiment and striking pictures and fine singing go to make up a star programme. The twelve-year-old boy., Norman Mudford, is the biggest hit of the crowd, his singing of "Sister" being something to remember. The kid says he has had no stage training ;. "it just came- to me," he remarks^' and yet his style and stage deportment are just about perfection. The house goes into raptures over the cute and gifted youngster. Ida Berridge took the advice tendered by this influential organ and returned to that clever dialect story-song "He Kissed )l Once," during the week, and the thunders of applause that rewarded her must have been gratifying to the pretty little lady. The new turns are all good. Florrie Swiff is not a prima ; donna assoluto, but she dances brilliantly. Joe Charles is. a rattling good low comedy singer and eccentric dancer, and has caught right on. Fred Leonard's chair balancing act is of the very best of that sort of 'turn, though the audience fail to recognise its extraordinary cleverness and tremendous risks. Fred must surely have been a pupil of "Merry Little Benham," whd> was the first to introduce this act to Australia and, like Leonard, worked a lot of comedy into it. The Driscoll Brothers ' comic patter dialogue could not be bettered, and that -make up— ! Clara Keating is a great favorite and the way she slings those shapely legs of hers about is vastly interesting. One favorite face— and a sweetly, pretty one, is missing ; that of May Wallace (who §ays she intended to write m to deny that she was never kissed as was stated a couple of weeks ago), and' every habitue misses her happy, girlish smile sorely. Val Newton's songs are 'way out m front. He not only has a fine voice, but he makes good choice and knows how to use .it. Aubrey Douglas (oh, splash !•) is a new end . man and Tauchert has . a boshter cold. - Last night there were several new turns by arrivals per Moeraki from Sydney. These included "Apollo- Belvidere," a splendidly proportioned statue poseur, whose poses created a . furore ; the Lewis Sisters, a charming and clever serio double who danced and sang their way into all hearts ; and those absolutely unequalled American dancers, The Bicknells, who, since they came to Australia With the American Entertainers, some three years ago, have been the stars of every show they have been with and whose dancinff is so unique m type and entrancing m quality. Fullers a re keeping up with the procession all right all right.