STAGE PRODUCTIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)

STAGE PRODUCTIONS.

REVUES FOR HAMILTON ROME COMING ATTRACTIONS Itontftgue Show Pleases Auokland. Of the Montague Show, an English "Vevue company to be seen In Hamilton shortly, an Auckland paper says:— The comedy team In “This Year of Carnival” Is perhaps the strongest Auokland has seen for some time. In i Addition to the popular George Doonan, 1 %vho kept the aurlence In a constant of merriment whenever he ap- j Reared on the stage, there are two particularly able assistants in Jimmy. Jewel and Ben Warris, and the com-, Sdlenne Barbara Vernon was also fclighly talented. The company provided a large . Audience with sufficient good entertalnment to show that It should have a most successful tour. Comedy and •peotacular Interludes, as well as Variety and novelty Items, were very j tyrell blended, and the audience showed j ilmost continuous appreciation of the frevu©. * Victoria Regina” In Melbourne On October 23, in Melbourne, J. C. Williamson will present for the first J*ess, Fay Compton, and her London Company of nine principals. The opening production will be fcyaurence Ilousman's famous play, **Vlotorla Regina.” The 1 (fading man will be Bruno fearnabe, who appeared with Elizabeth Bergner in the London stage production of “ Escape Me Never.” Players for Hamilton. The two Rogues, the English comedians who will appear in Hamilton With the Montague Show, have been fcen In several films in New Zealand. They were with Jessie Matthews In and with Jack Buchanan “Brewster's Millions.” fMot Coming to Hamilton. Owing to the theatre being otherwise engaged on the only suitable date, the Don Cossack Choir will not come $0 Hamilton. The choir will commence a season Auckland next Saturday. lUmiltonlans Visit Ohaupo. Ladles’ Night at the 'Ohaupo Club on Thursday was very Successful. Several members of the Hamilton Club were present. A particularly enjoyable programme was presented. Mr Ward, of Auckland, gave Shakespearean and other dxoerpts In a manner that thrilled the Audience and several Hamilton performers —Mrs G. Linder, Messrs W • Suohards (the possessor of a particularly fine voice), 11. Saunders, K. Lade, B. Johnson and H. Critcjiley —gave £sm§ with great success. The Hamilton Playbox staged the Housing comedy, “ The Man With a Bowler Hat,” the players being Mrs C. Linder. Mrs Walker, Messrs K. Etade, W, Blakeway, Noel Blunt, H. Parkes grid Pringle Nelson. balalaika” In Bydney. 1 The next big production In Sydney a spectacular musical pfcay that Is having a long run in Lon-don-—will be staged next week. t)on Nicol (comedian) and Arthur {H&rke (tenor), who were so popular With the Gladys Moncrieff company in Maw Zealand recently, are prominent the cast. Others In the cast Include Yvonne ftanv&rd, Lesley Crane (the Ne\v Zealand girl), Gaston Mervale, Douglas Herald, Bert Matthews, Clifford Cowley, lan Devereux and Sidney Wheeler. Thadee Slavinskv, who was in New Bealand with the Russian Ballet, will produoe the ballets in "Balalaika,” in Whloh ■Charlotte Lodder and Jan Kowgkey will be the solo dancers. In the two acts are several scenes, Including a street in Montmartre, Paris, the Balalaika Cafe' and Cabaret, In Paris; the Marinsky Theatre, St'. Petersburg; a (Regimental Ileadquartere, Galicia; the Russian Ballet on the gtage of the Marinsky Theatre. There are no fewer than 42 chard. peters In the play. Hamilton Girl for England. Elaine Ilamill, Ihe former Hamilton girl, has Just finished work on the ftlm “Lovers and Luggers” with Lloyd Hughes, the American star, at Cinepound Studios, and has left Sydney for Brisbane to lake the part of the Governor's daughter (played in New Zealand by Lesley Crane) in “The Maid of the Mountains” with the Gladys Moncrieff company. On September 13 Miss Ilamill will sail for England. Fryik Neil Rovue at Wellington. After appearing successfully at New Plymouth. Palmerston North and Hastings, the Frank Neil revue company opened a throe weeks season at Wellington on Wednesday night. There's a Limit ! The play was of the most wildly dramatic character, hut the great goone was that in which the hero confronts the sneeringly triumphant villain. “Sir Marmaduke. ' he exclaimed, ••you have reduc’d me to beggary, broken the heart of m> aged mother, and eloped with *m> wile. But beware! Don't go too lar!” Melodrama Revived In Sydney. Encouraged b\ the success of "The Bat,” Richard White a brother of Clem Dawe has decided to produce Other melodramas I lie Mller, •“White Cargo." The Streets of I.on don,” etc. -at the Now town Theatre. Sydney. In the companj a •’ Katie lowers. Nan Taylor. H“>'- -a 'thy. MoneriefT McCall urn. '■ I l*err>. .lames Bradley, Ossie W euli in. ' irleton Stuart and Richard Deverr.iux. Australian Chorus Girls Defended. Referring to criticism of the Australian chorus girl. Mr E. .1 Bait, managing director «>: .1. Williamson. Ltd., said in »dne\ : ••I have seen hallo! girls in ail parls of the world, and I can honestly say (hat the Austral.ail girl is incompar nbJo.” The ballet In She (iocs." the pacx t pi Williamson, Will be 1"" per •■■ nt \ustral ail. Mr Ta t added . Irene Dunne and 1 ar\ (irant will CO-a Lar In "The Awful Truth.’

GRACE MOORE ANGRY OBJECTS TO “ BLUES ” SONG A TEMPERAMENTAL FILM STAR Grace Moore is annoyed again. It's a thing that seems to happen to her every time -she goes to work in Hollywood. First there was that little spot of bother during the making of “ The King Steps Out.” She objected to milking a cow and singing at the same time. What effect the dairymaid stuff had on her voice was never discovered, since the cow sequences were cut out of the picture. Lat«*r. Miss Moore announced that she didn’t want to -sing “ Minnie the Moocher ” in her last film, “ For You Alone.” Now, in “ I’ll Take Romance," currently In production, Miss Moore has refused to give forth with “ St. Louis Blues.”