STAGE PRODUCTIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)

STAGE PRODUCTIONS.

Notice to Correspondents. “ L.S,” Napier.—Thanks for your appreciative reference to this page. Your good wishes to the Hamilton Operatic Society in its production of “ Rio Rita ” will be appreciated. Vaudeville for Hamilton. Another Frank Neil vaudeville company will open a tour of New Zealand at Auckland on Monday, August 2 and will come' to Hamilton on August 16 and 17. Among the performers will be Con Colleano, the wire-walking marvel, who recently returned to Australia after years of success in England; Irene Vermillion, dancing star, and her Dart Trumpeteers; Charles Norman, musical comedy comedian; Bo'b Parrish, the American coloured radio star; the .Harris Sisters, balancers; the Broadway Tappers, American team; Jack and Sylvia Kelleway, comedians; Margaret Grimshaw, soprano ; Natalie Raine, comedienne; Chic Arnold, humorist; and the Tivoli Ballet. Gladys Moncrleff’s Holiday. In the nine years since she returned to Australia from England, Gladys Moncrieff can recall breaks from' work amounting to about only three months in all. and she. considers that a holiday Is well deserved. She had planned to go to the Coronation, but the present tour upset that holiday, and so, in spile of offers of engagements, she intends taking Ihe first, chance of going oh a holiday trip to either England or the United Slates. Grade Fields Gives £IOOO for Orphans Grade Fields has given Lottie Albert yet another £IOOO towards the G. F. Orphanage Endowment Fund, says a London paper. 50,000 People See 44 Paganini.” Mr Charles B. Cochran has received offers from practically every producer in the States for an autumn presentation of 44 Paganini," the Lehar operetta now . running at the Lyceum Theatre, with Richard Tauber and Evelyn Lave in 1 lie star roles. In two and a half weeks 44 Paganini ” has been seen by more than 50.000 people. New Jazz Ballet. Seventy-five young American dancers, all of them aged less than 25, will 'be seen a I the London Hippodrome in something entirely new in ■ballet. They are the members of the Philadelphia Bullet, which until it was sent to Paris in connection with the International Exhibition, had never appeared outside the United Stales. Tills company was formed about two years ago by Catherine Littlefield, formerly premiere danseuse at the Philadelphia Opera. George Arllss Mobbed. George Arliss visited Ihe Theatrical Harden Parly, at Regent’s Park, London, last month, for the first, time since lie bad a stall there when lie was playing in London in “ The Green Goddess." lie was mobbed while signing autographs. through which lie made £l4 for the Actors’ Orphanage, and had to he, escorted away by police. He had taken time off from playing in " Dr. Syn.” at Gainsborough Studios. Ivor Novelln's “Grand Giggle,” ta'/' o F pv ,;o, " r,nn ** a ,Pm Peramenneidge’s audition tent, were* particular attraction*.