The Show's The Thing

NZ Truth, Issue 1206, 10 January 1929, Page 16

The Show's The Thing

Show. 30XING NIGHT was zero-hour for the Dunechn hop-over of Pat lanna's Diggers m their re-appearance n New Zealand after three years on the ither side. Since when they've held heir object'iye m typical style from a trong entrenchment at Fullers' Prin:ess Theatre. Pat's platoon of 25 artist's is well iquipped with vaudeville gunnery, ['here are One or two new faces m the anks, with Pat himself and Joe ■ Vaili, if course, chief giggle-grenadiers. Anyone sceptically surmising the Diggers' show to be loaded with worn>ut ammunition can have another think —Pat and Co.'s stuff isn't over-khakied lor old-soldier soaked, but mixes just inough war-time reminiscence to ve"resh the tan" gs s - of ''pathos, and comedy ,vhich belong to a .nation's memory of :he Digger. The rest is equally a good :onic. , . „: " Their Dunedin '.'season -is expected to ast about four weeks..