STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 122, 13 August 1927, Page 15

STRAND

BON BON REVUE A change of programme at the Strand Theatre this week has meant more new and taking novelties of song and dance, presented by the Robert Roberts Bon Bon Revue Company. When the curtain rises, the full company sets the ball rolling with a jazz medley, entitled “Off to Fun Land.” That burning question for mere males, should a man surrender his seat to a lady while seated in the tram? Is developed into a hundred per cent, laugh-jnaker. June Mills, the popular comedienne, makes a big hit in the leading role. A song and dance number in the picturesque setting of a Red Indian camp in the moonlight, called the “Redskin Revels,” makes a pleasing break in the heavily-laden atmosphere of jazz, which surrounds the other items. Mr. Robert Roberts tackles jone of his humorous songs in a very effective way. From behind the curtain, he sings in pathetic notes and then slowly walks on to the stage, where he is seen in an hilariously exaggerated garb. Wylie Watson, the well-known London comedian, succeeds as usual in sending his audience into yells of laughter, and the subsequent song and dance by Arline Paterson and the Bon Bons, whose dancing throughout the evening furnishes a series of bright and acceptable interludes. winds off an excellent entertainment. June Mills again appears in a lone act, which is full of pep from the opening lines. Robert Roberts and Arline Paterson make a good combination in an entertaning number entitled “The Colonel and the Girl,” while Will Gilbert and Maurise Jaffrey appear in an original comedy turn. As a concluding item the company takes the stage in “County Sligo,” with dances, decorations and garments all in taking style. The big film attraction is “Marriage,” from the novel of LI. G. Wells, a powerful screen exposition of one of the novelist’s best-known works.