HIS MAJESTY’S
“ROSE MARIE” The lilting comedy of the Canadian Rockies, “Rose Marie,” is evidently out to make new box office records in Auckland. Every performance, afternoon and evening*, fills His Majesty’s Theatre. There is just enough of the dramatic in “Rose Marie” to give the audience a thrill without infringing at all on the indisputable right of musical comedy to be, in the first place, funny. “Rose Marie” has three great strengths—its hu/nour, its famous melodies, and its spectacular beauty. Of course, “Rose Marie’s” reputation was made,.and had echoed down Queen Street, years before the well-known airs are here to be heard in their context. But here now, in the flesh, so to speak, they are far from trite. They are revivified and their beauties and great superiority over the big ruck of musical comedy ditties stand out. Miss Harriet Bennet carries the name-part vivaciously and attractively and Frederic Bentley is a show in himself as “Hard-Boiled Herman,” in which his droll humour is seen to excellent advantage. Stephanie Deste, as Wanda, the Indian vamp, plays a difficult part to perfection, and her dancing is one of the features of the show. “Rose Marie” will continue until Saturday.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 249, 11 January 1928, Page 13
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199HIS MAJESTY’S Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 249, 11 January 1928, Page 13
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