“VARIETY HOUR”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 5

“VARIETY HOUR”

CLAPHAM AND DWYER. “Variety Hour” is a Fox-British picture made at the Wembley Studios, and a picture of which Wembley can be justly proud. It presents a host of variety’s best performers against their proper background —the stage. It is a real variety show—music, dancing, comedy, thrills—wound around a story concerning Clapham and Dwyer's endeavour to make good on the radio. Some really grand numbers are introduced. Lawrance and his Lansdowne band are at the top of their form, investing their arrangements with tremendous vigour and sparkle. Carson Robison and his pioneers give us some cowboy songs and the Wiere Brothers are crazier than ever. Kay, Katya and Kay, combine grace and rhythm with acrobatic skill in a couple of brilliant dances. The Norwich Trio with its golliwog contortionist are highly amusing as well as clever, Jack Donohue, the world’s fastest tap-dancer gives an excellent display of high speed foot work, the Music Hall Boys gag the old >mgs frivolously, and both Helen Howard and Raymond Newell sing magnificently. This truly novel production opens at the State Theatre on Wednesday in conjunction with Jack Hulbert in the Edgar Wallace thriller, “Kate Plus Ten.”