FULLER'S OPERA HOUSE.
Billed' as the '/greatest laughing act of the age," Everest's Monkey Hippodrome, whioh uoids the. boards at the Opera House this week, fully justifies its title. A.iere were very few seats available at the Theatre at 8 o'clock last night, and tfie booking is bound to be extremely heavy for the remainder of. the season. , The hippodrome has taken the popular. fancy by storm. The twenty monkeys provide a turn which includes wire-walking, trapeze work, weight"! lifting, and juggling. The monkey orchestra is beyond description. The programme also includes Joe Brennan and Ida Newton, the mu«dcal comedy duo, Mr and Mrs Kennedy Allen in "Fragments," Louis W. Bloy, banjo specialist, the Great Dalbeame, _ sensational equilbrist, Hyman Lenzer, violinist, Carlton and Roslyn, in vaudeville sketches, Le Roi illusionist, and Little Lorna "Australia a wonder child." .. . Harry Thurston, the famous Bnglisn comedian, opens on Monday, tfr Thurston lias become celebrated by his characterisation of Bairnsfather's "Old Bill.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17609, 11 November 1922, Page 16
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