CELEBRITITY VAUDEVILLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 July 1927, Page 14

CELEBRITITY VAUDEVILLE

| ALL-STAR COMPANY COMING I In common with the rest of the world, all Auckland loves a variety entertainment, and has been anticipating the coming of the next J. C. Williamson Celebrity Vaudeville Company, which opens its New Zealand tour at His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland, on Tuesday, July 19. The combination has been specially chosen from the great Australian circuit, and is without doubt among the greatest all-star vaudeville companies ever brought to the Dominion. It includes one of the most amazing novelty acts in the world, Joseph Belmont’s Canary Opera, the only feathered opera company in the world. It is difficult to believe that this act from the Ziegfeld Follies, which has created a sensation in all countries, presents a number of feathered songsters in a real opera setting—duets, solos, trios, choruses and the like. Owners of canaries who feel that the expenditure per year on bird seed is not repaid by a fair return of warbling, should see these birds and then try and emulate the example of Mr. Belmont. Fortunate indeed were the selectors in securing for this tour Dick Henderson, renowned comedian, known everywhere as “the man who made the Queen laugh.” He has been a riotous success in Australia and abroad, and in London his name is enough to pack any theatre. A dancing act of unique colour and interpretation is that of the famous Parisian exponents, “Les Zenga Freres,” presenting something different in dancing. Marie Lawton and her harp, Valencia, Spanish daredevil on the flying trapeze, whose climax is a riot; the Lee Sisters, “Up in the Air”; Rich and Adair, “The Flower Vendor”; Colin Crane, eminent baritone; and Billie Lockwood, the vivacious little artiste whom Lee White and Clay Smith took to London, complete the list. Much could be said about each act, for each act is a star in itself.