BREAKING RECORDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 643, 20 April 1929, Page 15

BREAKING RECORDS

GEORGE WALLACE REVUE PROGRAMME AT ST. JAMES Mr. George W'allaco has an apparently endless supply of fun and musical entertainments. Last evening, at St. Jame 3 Theatre, he became his real self for a few minutes, and modestly thanked his appreciative audience for their support of himself and his company. They had just created a theatrical record for Auckland, and were beginning on their eighteenth successive week of amusing the Auckland public. Mr. Wallace has only to don a pair of wide and flowing trousers, allow them to swing dangerously low, and V.nder round the stage. This is quite sufficient to convulse his admirers. When he takes the drums to assist the syncopated orchestra., he wears the expression of just having won the egg-beating competition at some winter show. It is deliciously inconsequential, and amusing enough in itself to place him in the front rank of vaudeville comedians. The programme for this week at St. James is complete and varied, and the hard-working little company justifies its claim to the success it has achieved. After the opening chorus, in which everybody joins, Si Meredith and Jim Romaine., a most popular couple with the audience, appear as a couple of sand sheiks, and told their amusing story with vigour. The Dudleys followed with a line of snappy cross-talk and some popular songs. Mr. Wallace himself then took charge, both of the audience and Mr. R. Beacham, who was at the piano, and in his inimitable way sang “Mine, All Mine,” and two other numbers. Maida Jones, Jack Scott, and the lively chorus frolicked for a while, and then Marie Nyman delighted her followers with “Was It a Dream?” Mr. Wallace and his flaming youths are excellent with their jazz band. They' opened with an American medley, followed this with “Light Cavalry,” and then accompanied Olive Partridge and Thelma Buxton, who flicked their nimble limbs in a speedy dance. When Bert Tucker had ended his saxophone solo, which he played admirably, “Faust” was turned into a fox-trot by the whole orchestra. The second half of the programme consisted of a potted musical comedy, “£100,000,” in which Mr. Wallace played the village nuisance who received a fortune. There is a host of characters, several entertaining songs, and a number of specialty dances, the whole making for a good, evening’s entertainment. During this week Mr. Wallace and his company will go on breaking records, and will follow up next week with still another evening of surprises.