THE FAMOUS N.Z. DIGGERS.

Shannon News, 16 May 1922, Page 3

THE FAMOUS N.Z. DIGGERS.

MAORILAND THEATRE,

TUESDAY NEXT, MAY 23

A review of the Second Edition of 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 m the personnel of the company since its last visit to this town, but if newspap(e\r (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” attainments, and the general opinion is that this present program is the best achievement of any yet attempted by them. The inclusion of Frank Perryn, late understudy lo 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 r ‘Washing the Baby.” Joe Valli, Frank Moran, Tano Faina, and Stan Lawson provoke roars of laughter in “The Burlesque Fortuneteller.” “The Raw Recruits” is a really comical sketch of the military type. “The Charwoman” is a. comedy sketch which Frank Perryn puts over in such a manner as to tickle the risibilities of the most unsusceptible theatre-goer. “The Magic Hat” is a very quaint item. The Egyptian scene “Backsheesh” is replete with comic burlesque and good songs, and serves to introduce the Dance Orientate by Gus Dawson and Stan Lawson The Italian Impressions by Frank Perryn, “The Lighthouse Keeper” Lv Frank Moran, Fred Webber’s piano sketches, Stan Lawson’s latest songs, the operatic opening chorus, and some really splendid song hits make up a programme equal if not superior to the best this company has yet presented.