“WHOOPEE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 851, 20 December 1929, Page 17

“WHOOPEE”

HIS MAJESTY’S NEXT SHOW The box plans for “Whoopee” were opened this morning and there was a good demand for seats. The following was written by a Melbourne critic about “Whoopee,” which is to be staged for the first time in New Zealand by the J. C. Williamson, Ltd., management on Thursday afternoon next (Boxing Day); “Settings full of colour distinguished the performance of ‘Whoopee’ at the J. C. Williamson, Ltd., theatre on Saturday night. Throughout the production the costumes of the cowboys —red shirts and bright-col cm red breeches, worn for festive occasions—added gaiety do the scenes and the ballet costumes showed a surprising variety. “A brilliant and unusual effect was gained in the opening scene of the second act, which takes place in the Indian reservation when there is an invocation to the mountain god. Indian princesses arrive clad in beautiful coloured cloaks and wearing magnificent head-dresses of coloured feathers. With outspread wings of white feathers, tipped and marked with black, the ballet girls represent eagles. In this setting the tall figure of Black Eagle, the head of the Indian tribe, who wore a fine head-dress of feathers and beautiful wrap, and Wanenis, who was clad in white; had added dignity, while Miss Lilian Crisp as Sally Morgan, clad in silver, with a tall headdress of white feathers, was a striking figure as she rod© down the steep pathway on a white horse. Attractive frocks are worn by all the principals and the choristers.”