ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 112, 1 November 1911, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

HARRY RICKARDS VAUDEVILLE 00. The vaudeville combination which will open a short season at the Theatre Royal on Monday evening next under the auspices of tlie firm of Harry Richards is, taken all round, one of the best and brightest ever seen here. Novelty is the keynote and variety its watchword. Most of the company consists of importI ed talent, which is necessarily new to Dominion audiences, and the majority of the acts to be submitted are of a high standard of merit. When such a wealth of material is available from which to select it is not easy to place one's finger on any act in particular. As a matter of fact, many of the turns could be bracketed as equal in merit, the only difference being in the nature of the elements that go to make up their intrinsic excellence. On this principle, then, Mdllc. Aloide Capitaine may be singled out for premier mention. This lady is a model of perfect physical symmetry and goes through a graceful and daring trapeze act. Her every movement is grace personified and is done without any effort, although the strain at times must be enormous. Binns and. Binns are a couple or comedians, who introduce some surprisingly clever effects into an act that is stamped with the indelible hall-mark of originality. Sydney Bach is a Welsh humorist, who submits a clever and decidedly amusing musical monologue. Alf. Holt has a quaint and natural style of his own and places himself en rapport with his audience immediately he steps on to the stage. Clarke and Mostol are patter comedians as well as lightning dancers, and their work in this respect comes as a revelation in terpsichorean art.