DIGGERS’ FUN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 677, 31 May 1929, Page 16

DIGGERS’ FUN

ST. JAMES REVUE Good fun, snappy sketches, clever dancing and pleasing singing—Pat Hanna and his Diggers continue their popular season at St. James Theatre. This evening the company is changing its programme. Last evening, the final performance of the first programme, saw an appreciative audience. Adele Taylor, Iza Crossley, Hilda Meadows, Jessie Meadows and Mickey Phillips all sang and danced. Miss Taylor’s singing was especially appreciated and a musical turn by Hilda and Jessie Meadows, with piano and violin, was especially well done. Pat Hanna, Joe Valli, Jock Thomson, Stan Lawson, Roy Brinsden, Norman Scurr and Ernest Kopke were all seen in a bright series of sketches. Pat and Joe. of course, too kthe biggest parts in the fun-making and Jock Thomson’s singing was a big feature. “Poison” is the almost startling title of the first of the Diggers’ sketches in the new programme. It is all about London and the East. This turn will be followed by an instrumental and vocal fantasy, “Sally,” and a dance feature, “Palm Beach Walk.” Two potted plays, “Ah,” and “Business as Usual,” will see the company’s comedians at their best and a riotous farce, “Love Makes Fools of Us All,” should be popular. Near the end of the programme the Diggers will do their best to interpret the lighter side of the war. Thelma Pittard’s dancing will again take a prominent place in the programme. The highest priced seat charged by the Diggers, including Saturdays and holidays, will be 3s.

LECTURES ON ACOUSTICS

A special course of lectures in acoustics will be delivered at the University College during the next few months. The first lecture has been arranged for Monday week, June 10. She breaks into the movies, and she breaks up the audiences—that, in brief, is what Marion Davies accomplishes with William Haines, in “Show People.” The story is entirely new, unusual, and full of laughs. King Vidor has taken the story of a little Southern girl who comes to Hollywood, enters motion pictures, and eventually rises to stardom, and with this material has made use of all the funny incidents of life in the film capital that have occurred in the last few years. The result is a masterpiece!