ST. JAMES THEATRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 447, 31 August 1928, Page 15

ST. JAMES THEATRE

PROGRAMME CHANGE THIS EVENING Chockful of fun, the result mostly of the broad and seemingly inexhaustible comedy of Syd. Beck, Queenie X-’aul s “League of Notions” company, in featuring the various phases of a real revue, attracted another large house at the St. James Theatre last evening. Touching on song, dance, sketch and dialogue, “The League” was favoured with as an enthusiastic audience as ever. Syd. Beck’s clever nonsense throughout made him the crack mirth - maker of the evening, and his culminating triumph, “Rhubarb,” was the big hit of the show. Linn Smith and his five musicians revealed some more of those secrets in the art of syncopation, while they received some very pleasing vocal assistance from Queenie Paul and Mike Connors, who featured “Here Am I Broken-Hearted.” Recalls were numerous, and these two popular harmonisers finished their turn after many j minutes, by singing some of the latj est jazz hits at the request of the i audience. Earnie Paulasto proved himself to | be anything but a gloomy sort of perI son, and his team work with ’Orrie 1 was one of those exceptionally pleasing turns from beginning to end. The two certainly delighted the audience when they turned to dancing. Another of their stunts, “The Body in the Bag,” was an act which no one could resist. Les Pearce managed a line dramatic effect in his singing of “Somewhere South of Shanghai,” while the hardworked, yet snappy ballet, "The ExI quisite Six,” tripped in and out of the | show at intervals displaying bewilder- ! ing changes in costumes, i The “League of Notions” company i will continue for another week at the j j St. James Theatre, but from this even- ; ing there will be a change of pro- ! gramme.