CLEM DAWE REVUE COMPANY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21290, 9 October 1934, Page 3

CLEM DAWE REVUE COMPANY

"THE LAUGH PARADE" The new programme of the Clem Dawe Revue Company is called "The Laugh Parade," and the title has been well chosen. There is hardly a second from curtain to curtain when there is not somebody on the stage amusing the audience in some way or other. The brightness of the production relies to a great extent on this, but the dressing and the staging are so good that even with a slower tempo the show would still be a great success. The hub round which the whole thing revolves is Clem Dawe, a favourite with Christchurch audiences for many years, and no less well liked for having been away for some time. His is the gift of the purest kind 61 comedy, comedy cf the old unsophisticated kind, where a funny appearance and i'unny property clothes go to help in making the laughs. In the new programme he is as good as he has been in the two previous ones, and no more need be said. The whole show is outstanding in that it hangs together very much better than similar shows were wont to do in the past. There is not one performer who is below the high general standard, and because of this there is never a dragging moment for those who see it. It is very difficult to pick out from the maze of good things o.Tered any one that is startlingly better than the rest, but perhaps for tasteful decorativeness the "Two Little Bluebirds" scene was outstanding. One cannot point in the same way to one of the humorous turns, and say that it is better than the rest. They are all so good.