THE KWONG SING WAHS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 272, 7 February 1928, Page 15

THE KWONG SING WAHS

UNIQUE VAUDEVILLE

REGENT’S CHINESE TROUPE Two hoops rimmed with cruel, gleaming knives. The third, a blaxing sheet of flame. Before them a bowing and gesticulating Chinese, and then — a mighty leap! Before the audience has time to take a second breath, lo and behold, he is on the other side of all three! TO devise such a test of skill and daring,, particularly the effect with the murderbus knives, is assuredly Celestial in conception. It was but one of the feats, however, of the Kwong Sing Wall troupe, who received a particularly enthusiastic welcome at the Regent Theatre last night. Though the amazing and bewildering antics of their fellow countrymen did not occasion them to display their enthusiasm in quite the same way as

Europeans, the appreciation of Auckland’s Chinatown was certainly genuine. The Kwong Sing Wah troupe represent first-class vaudeville —vaudeville at its best. Each and every member of the party is an artist. There are no "passengers” with the Kwong Sing Wah. Even the two juveniles in the troupe of seven performers are dexterous acrobats, and a large share qf the work falls to them. Bebe Daniels takes the water with her usual aplomb in “Swim, Girl, Swim,” her latest Paramount comedy in which she has the support of Gertrude Ederle, the Channel swimmer. Maurice Guttridge and his orchestra, and Arthur Frost at the Wurlitzer, both assist in the presentation of an attractive programme.