“TIP TOES”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 275, 10 February 1928, Page 15

“TIP TOES”

BOX PLANS OPEN MONDAY Great interest is being taken by playgoers over the approaching J. C. Williamson, Ltd., .musical comedy season, which begins on Wednesday night next, when ‘‘Tip Toes,” the present reigning attraction in New York and London, will be staged for the first time. The company has just terminated a record season in Melbourne in “Queen High,” which opera they will stage in Sydney shortly. Therefore, the approaching Auckland season must be limited to 10 nights, during which “Queen High” will also be staged. The company, which numbers over 70 people, includes a number of London and Continental artists, and others whose reappearance will be welcomed by playgoers throughout New Zealand. For the first time in the history of the New Zealand stage playgoers will have'an opportunity to enjoy the dancing of three artists from the Folies Bergeres, Paris. These are Josephine Head, Albert Hugo and Mdlle. Ramona, who created something like a sensation in Sydney and Melbourne. “Their dancing,” wrote a critic, “is alone worth witnessing. No more popular comedians than Cecil Kellaway and R. Barrett-Lennard have ever appeared in this Dominion and they will doubtless receive a great reception when they appear on Wednesday night. Those two delightful comediennes, Miss Thelma Burness and Beryl Walkeley, have on previous occasions delighted us in a number of characterisations, and so has Leyland Hodgson, the popular young baritone. Wednesday will signalise the first appearance here of Roy Russell, and the first appearance since her successful visit to London, with the Lee White-Clay Smith Co., of Miss Billie Lockwood. There are 30 beautiful and well-trained ballet ladies in the company. The dress creations, it. is said, cost thousands of pounds to produce, and the scenery is one of the special features of “Tip Toes.’ ’ George Gershwin has composed some beautiful melodies for ‘Tip Toes,” and the writers of this play have supplied the comedians with some fine material, of which, it is stated, they have made the best use. The box plans will be opened at Lewis R. Eady and Son, Ltd., on Monday morning.