HIGHER VAUDEVILLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 512, 15 November 1928, Page 15

HIGHER VAUDEVILLE

LAST NIGHT’S BIG SHOW APPRECIATIVE THOUSANDS - Under the wide and starry sky the triennial “first night'* of the election show was presented to large and appreciative crowds last evening with marked success. Early out-of-doors, free of war and income-tax, opened at 6.45 and the queues stretched from the top to the bottom of Queen Street. Everyone was out to see what was proclaimed to be the best show for three years. Under the kindly eye of knots of policemen and traffic inspectors, the crowds massed up, blocking Queen Street, and Wyndham Street. Young women, who, under normal conditions would be satisfied with nothing less than dress circle plush, were sitting on the road with nothing more luxurious than newspaper for cushionA fruit merchant, with the merchant’s proper eye to business, let out his used cases at "threepence a time,” and the crowd lost no time in cleaning out the stock. It was some time before the crowds had the confidence to raise their voices in acclamation but when the show was on in earnest the cheers broke out and echoed through the quiet back streets of the city, proving that there is nothing like an election to waken the partisan spirit. It beats even a football match. It was well after midnight before The Sun rang down the curtain before a few lingering hundreds, who straightway went home satisfied with as fine an exposition of the higher vaudeville "As ever was seen in the city.”