"WEE" GEORGIE WOOD.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18457, 11 August 1925, Page 15

"WEE" GEORGIE WOOD.

AT THEATRE ROYAL. Tie diminutive comedian, "Wee" Gcorgio Wood, with liU £-.pporLir.~ company, played to anot?isr largo audience c: the Theatre Royal last night.. >'aw Zealand Entertainer;, Lid., in conjunction with Messrs .T. C. Williamson, Ltd., can always he relied upon to present a good vaudeville bill, ani with the ttcoiparij- at present appearhia: th-'- high *' ::- tertainrnent standard is kept up. Other artists, ia addition to Wood, arc the Aluor D'io, acrobats; Billy Ma'.onuy. soas anil patter artist; Mario" J.awlo;>. soprano, harpis', and pianist; Prank's eauino statuary; Ja>" Whidden, jazz violinist: and L'ddie Lester and tiia Columbia syncopator;. A matinee will be held to-morrnw, when Neil McKay vil! bo adied to the. trill of acts. To-night is the last night of t'no present programme. Oornmene'ng tomorrow, at the matinee, "Wee" Gcorgio Wood will introduce his world-famous Boy Scout playlet. "Xobauy Loves Me." Per tha purposes of this sketch. Gcorgio Wood was specially created a Scout, and attached to Divisional Headquarters, London, by Sir Laden Powell himself. _ A notable first appearance also en the lnl. Rt the matinee will be that of Neil McKay, known throurhout England and America as "The Heal McKay," a very brilliant Scottish character comedian and dancer, and A"Jter:'ja f 3 favourite Scottish comedian. Neil McKay became p. star in a nighty His fti - J3'.Mi Scottish character Indies caused Oswald -Stoll to top the bill with this yonnSc<jt at the London Co!o:--t.iit, :\nd designated -airii as "the finest Scott hit comedian ot a decade." Asa Hu'sian Scot he ia the funniest thine imaginable, whilst his sailor pons is a positive Rem. He cimes to New /.eala:iil from t\ triumphal lour of America, waer* he forced his way to headline position through sheer merit. Neil McKay comas to the Dominion not when past, his best, as r-anv stars do, but, as all critics are agreed, at the very threshold o£ what will surely be a very brilliant career.