TALENTED PERFORMERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1939, Page 2

TALENTED PERFORMERS

GREAT NORTH CHINA TROUPE. Box plans for this unique and world renowned show will open at Nimmo’s on Monday, and if local interest is any criterion there will be a capacity house to welcome this talented band. Speaking of the troupe, the London “Daily Mirror” of February 14, 1939, said: “It is no small feat for a stage theatrical troupe to exhilarate a cinema audience so as to make the talkies seem by contrast old fashioned. Yet this is what Lau Fu Chung and his agile crew do in an hour or so. Lau Fu Chung, heir of a centuries old tradition of showmanship, enthalls where other types of entertainment cannot. These gymnasts, dancers, contortion- 1 ists, singers, balancers, and acrobats excite the audience the more successfully perhaps, because nowadays the true excitements of fast moving sensational variety are seldom offered here. Lau Fu Chung has returned from his world tour with a team of physical wonder workers, whose feats have never been equalled in vaudeville.” The Oriental part of the programme takes one and a half hours and is preceded by six English and Continental vaudeville specialties, which include Latona and Sparkes, sensational dancers from London Hippodrome. The troupe will appear at the Regent Theatre on Monday, September 25.