NEW REVUE SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 13

NEW REVUE SHOW.

CLEM DAWE'S COMEDY.

CHANGE AT HIS MAJESTY'S.

Without straying too often towards the "thin ice," though his version of the Eternal Triangle might be considered lather "broad," Clem Dawe and his talented revue company present a bright entertainment in their fourth show, entitled "The Whirligig," at His Majesty's Theatre. Between the uproarious comedy sketches in which Clem Dawe himself appears are some excellent ballet numbers and several real musical treats. "The Whirligig" is opened by the ballet in "You Can't Walk Back From an Aeroplane," following which Erie Edgley and Clem Dawe take to tlie clouds to fire a volley of barbed shafts of wit at a number of local institutions and personalities, making the Milk Council, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, Larwood and sundry ' others their targets. As the entertainment progresses, however, it is apparent that Clem Dawe lias not emptied his quiver on this occasion, for he is frequently able to reach his mark with a topical allusion, often political, to the delight of his audience. As a worried husband on an important domestic occasion and as a policeman on his first night on duty in a "tough" street, Clem Dawe is as funny as ever, but in "X-Ray Dialogue," in which the people at an afternoon tea speak the thoughts which they normally hide under conventional speech, he reveals an unsuspected ability as a female impersonator, taking the role of Mdlle. Camembcre.

During the first half o£ the programme Gregory I van off and Tom King played several excellent violin and piano solos, while the singing of Muriel O'Malley and Ann Luciano delighted everyone. One item that revived old memories was Dorothy White's "Two Impressions of Miss Ella Shields," in which she sings, in the style of the famous male impersonator, "Sing a Song of Sunshine" and "Stormy Weather." The second half of the programme is opened by Muriel O'Malley and the ballet in "An Idea in Shadows." There was a topical touch in "Musical Influenza," in which Clem Dawe, as the patient, and the company discuss the affliction in a series of clever parodies on popular songs. Clem Dawe is by turns a newly-arrived immigrant from Moscow, an army orderly, a fourth corner of the "eternal triangle" and Mr. Nosey Parker, a wanderer from Paliiatua, the land of the sheik. With Clem Dawe enthroned as a sheilc, a delightful evening's entertainment closes.