IMPROMPTU CONCERT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 20

IMPROMPTU CONCERT

SUNSHINE ASSOCIATION The Paddy’s Market and Fair held by the Community Sunsl ine Association to raise funds to furnish the camp house at Waiheke. was brought to a close last evening by an enjoyable concert, arranged by Airs. J. C. Blomfield. The following contributed items: Miss Trendall (piano), Master and Miss Williamson (dialogue), Master Lewis Eady (piano), Master T. Williamson (recitation). Miss Asher • song). Miss Tiny Patterson (dance), Miss E. Thomas (recitation), and Miss Doris Simms (piano). Misses Trenda and Asher were the accompanists. EMPRESS, NEWTON Musical comedy throughout the world can have its daring dancers and soothing syncopation, but it is doubtful if any show has ever produced a more glorious galaxy of beautiful chorus girls than are to # be seen in the allt viking, singing and dancing picture, “The Broadway Melody,” at the Empress Theatre, Newton. A bevy of 60 beautiful girls weaving to and fro to the rhythmic strains of specially written musical numbers are seen and heard in one sequence, photographed in technicolour, while the revue proper displays a troupe of specialty dancers who display for the first time the “Tampa Step.” Anita Page and Bessie Love appear as sisters in a cleverly composed “sister act” which is a complete “flop” when given a try-out at dress rehearsal. Charles King, celebrated Broadway baritone and musical comedy star, is seen in the male lead as a small town song-and-dance man, who eventually falls in love with the younger sister. Miss Love, as the elder sister, is forced to content herself with pairing up with a former antagonist from the chorus, in order to carry on with the act. The entire production is interspersed with novelty musical numbers, one of tho musical highlights coming from the true conception of a popular publisher's office.