FIXTURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 22

FIXTURES

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE i Now Playing.—“ Whoopee ' —Lilian Crisp j i and Wm. Perryman. To Follow: “Lilac Time,” “The Maid j of the Mountains" and “The Student j Prince.” COMING “Lombardi, Limited” (Leo Carillo). “The Flying Squad,” Leon Gordon. ST. JAMES THEATRE Now Playing.—Talking pictures. Coming.—Freddie Forbes Musical Comedy Company: League of Notions Revue Company, Hector St. Clair Revue Company. Allan Wilkie and his company are at present. playing in Melbourne. Later he will go to Tasmania. A big feature of the highly-amusing i play, Lombardi, Ltd., in which Leo ! Carrillo will play the leading role, is j a spectacular parade of beautiful ' | mannequins who wear the latest creations. This takes place in the hand-somely-appointed atelier of Lombardi, j and was the talk of fashionable circles i in Australia, where the comedy has been most enthusiastically received. ! Associated with Leo Carrillo in his New Zealand tour of ‘'Lombardi, Ltd./’ will be a strong J. C. Williamson company including Barbara Luddy and Margaret Cullen-Landis (sister of the famous screen star). Others in prominent roles are Brandon Peters, Natalie Moya, Cecil Mannering (first appearance in New Zealand), Leslie ; Victor, Rowena Ronald, Henrietta | Cavendish, Pop Cory, Maidie Hope, i Elma Gibbs, Beatrice Kendrick, : Daphne Bairn, Jack White, and a j number of girls selected for the great mannequin parade. * * * Following the season of ‘Hold • Everything” at Melbourne Theatre i Royal, J. C. Williamson, Ltd., will prei sent for the first time in Australia the. i musical play, “Turned Up,” in which Josie Melville and a brilliant cast will appear. A rearrangement of plans ! on the part of the firm will result in ; “The New Moon” being staged for the first time in Sydney by the reorganised “Desert Song” company, including Lance Fairfax and Marie Bremner. This will be an elaborate, spectacular production.