AMUSEMENTS.

NZ Truth, Issue 142, 7 March 1908, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

* : THEATRE ROYAL' Fullers' Entertainers. .There is a high spring tide of exceptionally good turns at the Theatre Royal just now that should be' taken at the flood by patrons. Cllarlie Waud's tight pants and vocal eccentricities convulse the multitude nightly, and Miss Brightie Smith, a most huggable bundle of charms, sings coyly ;in her intensely respectable nvagenta bathing dress, as of yore. Likewise she' shakes a shapely limb at the staid bald-heads m the front seats. That astounding sop-rano-baritone, Fred Bransgroye, deceives the public as to' his sex m a two-voiced manner, and the crowd applauds the deception with enthusiasm. Professor Davy has thrown some new matter into the speech of his energetic Marionettes,, and, . haying furnished the popular gag, ''H e didn't touch me," he now . inspires everybody to say, -"Oh, I say," with the languid emphasis of a dying duck m a thunderstorm. A veritable show m itself, this marionette turn. Frank Thornton and the . late Bob Brough weren't m it with Fred Graham as comedians. When a man is able to merely "look" his audience into hysterics without speaking he has achieved greatness. Nellie Dent and her partner are absolutely unsurpassed m their comic vocal sketches, of which series a new one, "The; bachelor's Dream," will be produced to-night and succeeding nights. John Fuller, senr. , is certainly a wonder m that he has preserved his sympathetic tenor all these years. Applause was whole-hearted and' vociferous when the elderly favorites, "Sally m our Alley" and "Geraldine" were vocalised by John, senr. There is some singular personality about Yorky Denis Carney, which im-, pels people to laugh whenever he opens his mouth, and often when he doesn't, and the four recalls which occur nightly must tie exhausting; though gratifying, to the humorist. The Price Sisters malfe winsome Scottish lassies, who carry a whiff ' of the heather on to the stage when they sing and talk and dazzle the onlookers with agile feet m the rapid Hieland dances. Reg. Williams and his professional pal, Mabel Bonetta, are exceedingly entertaining m their sketch, and Reggie's impersonation oil the shiMcered club toff is so realistic that the odor of whisky, is wafted into the auditorium. The world as it is torday is seen per biograph, which, is an excellent school, for the patron m the knowledge of things as they 'are. Hugh Lloyd, the musical "slack wire artist, whom. Wirth Bros, will never forgive themselves for losing, will appear Monday, if a slight indisposition contracted m Christchurch will have passed away.