FULLERS' OPERA HOUSE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18303, 10 February 1925, Page 14

FULLERS' OPERA HOUSE.

A BRIGHT REVUE. '' Throe star vaudeville , tnrna and a really excellent revue provide a delightfully complete programme for patrons of Pullers' Opera Houso this week. Mr Bidgood's Orchestra is in particularly good, form, and in addition to attractive overtures,. features itself exceptionally well in accompaniment work. _ • , , Carlton and Roselyn, two ; Eglish musical comedy stars, have a Bright opening number and their patter is of an amusing order. "Unicycloboxologists" is the term which "Will and Linda Newman give to their novelty item, presented for tho'fiist time. The turn is as ovginal as the name, and altogether a spectacular . mixture of comedy and acrobatics. Much above the average as an en. tertairier at the piano is J. E. Sutton, who had .the audience in a.'simmer of enjoyment during his Kxsital, with the *id -of song titles) of a young; man's progress through, various contingencies of life. Perhaps the finest item was kept to the last, when, Arthur Sandford, direct from London, cuted •some brilliant' piarioforte . selections,' and' later' accompanied Alice Hollander, a famous Australian contralto, who possesses a voice of rare resonance and charm.; "Oh, You Wonderful Girl!" is the ..title of the revue, a laiigh^ble'little play in one act, and two scenes,- cdnstrticfed' and produced by Mr F. Gayle Wyer. There is_ a simple plot, involving: some commercial travellers, & girl, a widow, with hopes and strange ideas about h'4r. repiltition, a negro porter, and -an i 84-year-old sheriff. The hero is Btriick■< with >tho' r, 'beauty of the lady station clerk. :'Her saves her property from the dutches , of ,a rogue by marrying her after a series of wonderful adventures that give any amount of scope to the girls from the Broadway "Bells Co., easily one of the trickiest troupes of ballet arti&ts Sir Benjamin Fuller has jet presented in Christchurch. The part of Hatt* . Dale, the commercial traveller who mimes the girl, is taken by ilt Wyer. * He- 4 has ; a (pleasing personality, and entered into the pajrtwith a sincerity that' -done credit to a lii»her vehicle. His rich baritone voice was heard in the principal score of the evening "Oh, You "Wonderful Girl," in ciation with Miaa Benson. -This lady, the "prima donnis." of the show,? takes tlio pait of-the station clerk. She, was a great success. Miss Elsa Scott' proved . herself a rather versatile artist. She portrayed the ingenuousness 'of a child ekinully in. the eong, "Gee! I Wish'l. had tho Mumps ! and almost a moment later made as great a hit as the eccentric spinster in "What's tie matter with Thirty-nine when you feel like Twenty-three?" - Mr Billy Bovis, the aged constable who is- still anxioua to meet "wild women," proved a clever-, comedian, and Mr Frank Perryn. the negro porter, cleverly interpreted a part that another artist might have exaggerated. Among the -songs this week nre "Meet Me at the Station Down in Dixie"- (Miss Dixon and girla), "You'll Always be the Same Sweet Girl fMr Wyer and Miss Benson), "I Ain't Going Back to Nowhere" (Mr Perryn), "I'm >a Man that's Always Laughing" (Mr Bovia), "Carolina Mammy" (Mr .Wyer and girls), "3ust Like a Boomerang" (Miss Benson, and girls), and "Dancing Fool" (Miss Dixon and girls). Miss Dixon leads many of the choruses, and her dainty manner and aweet voice, make her very popular. The will be repeated to-nignt.