“QUINTUPLAND”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1938, Page 11

“QUINTUPLAND”

THE DIONNES SWEETER THAN EVER. Hailed as the most entertaining topical record of the famous Canadian Dionne Quintuplets ever taken, a tworeel RKO-Pathe special featurette has been issued under the title: “Quintupland.” It shows the five little girls at | their interesting age of going on four I years, active and blooming with health amid the snows of remote Callander, Ontario. The high spirits and appeal of these remarkable children has been caught for the screen in a presentation I of their winter environment and pas- ■ times. It shows them, for example, I each in identical costumes of white furs, toboganning down a fifteen foot slide in their playground, playing at skiing, shovelling snow for exercise, all in a temperature of twenty degrees below zero, and loving it. In their winter costumes they make an unforgettable picture. Interior scenes show them at meals, at games, singing in chorus, and as audience, of their first motion picture show, a “Mickey Mouse.” Dr Dafoe and his activities also have space in this interesting chronicle which reveals that the earnings of the children amounts to about 200,000 dollars a year; that tjaey average now 35 pounds in weig.ht, and are each a little over three feet tall. STAGE & CONCERT NOTES. When England’s greatest actress, Fay Compton, opens at the King’s Theatre, Melbourne, on Saturday in “George and Margaret,” she will enter upon her farewell appearances .in Australia, as Miss Compton has made arrangements to return to London to enter upon management on her own account in a West End theatre. A crowded audience at Melbourne His Majesty’s Theatre welcomed the J. C. Williamson production of “Rose Marie” with such enthusiasm that each of the newspaper critics pointed out that it is a long time since a musical play was punctuated with so much applause throughout. After practically every scene the audience applauded, , and as the artists came on they were , given a vociferous welcome. - An out- , standing sensation was the Totem I ; Pole Ballet, which had never been ■ done better. <

After a season in Australia that can only be described as a series of brilliant triumphs, Ruth Draper, the incomparable American actress is at last coming to New Zealand for a short metropolitan season. She will open in Wellington on July 30. Miss Draper has no peer in her remarkable art of impersonation which, allied to her ( great knowledge of mankind, plus a fabulous gift for language, allows her to portray scenes from everyday life that are amazingly 'real. The New Zealand tour of Pop-eye the Sailor (Billy Costello in person) and his big company of Frank Neil stars, is strictly limited to seven weeks, for Mr Costello is scheduled to return to Hollywood at an early date to make more films. The originator of Pop-eye of cartoon fame is a genial entertainer on the stage, and his Dominion tour is being anticipated with keen interest by his admirers. “Pop-eye” will appear at Masterton on August 16.