NEW COMEDY REVUE COMPANY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21334, 29 November 1934, Page 13

NEW COMEDY REVUE COMPANY

"SO LONG FOLKS" With a bright programme entitled "So Long Folks," the Clem Dawe New Revue Company is in the final week of its very successful Christchurch season. To-night the company will hold a special shop girls' night, and many gifts, including a frock and hat, will be distributed, while tomorrow and Saturady special request programmes will be presented. A "Singing in the Rain" number (the programme gives all the numbers as "frolics"), opens the show. Edna Moncrieff and Edna Luscombe are the principals, but have the assistance in a very bright number of the ballet which has done such good service during an arduous season on the Christchurch stage. Clem Dawe makes an early and welcome appearance, discoursing with Eric Edgley on "Etiquette" and discovering much that is not to bo found in any book on that subject. Ralph Daly, the tenor who toured New Zealand quite recently with the J. C Williamson New Comic Opera Company, Gregory Ivanoff, Russian violinist, with an unusually fine technique, Halliday and Watson, the adagio dancers. Cliff O'Keefe, bass-baritone, Joe Schriner, an American artist, and Dorothy White all appear individually and successfully. Ivanoff is undoubtedly a fine technician in his playing of difficult arrangements of popular airs, and enters with spirit into the playing of more serious music which, never.heless, does not seem so popular with the public as the lighter numbers. Cliff O'Keefe has a wide repertoire, but his song, "Will o' The Wisp." must surely be one of his best. He sings it with appropriate dramatic intensity of feeling. Clem Dawe himself makes many appearances in the funniest of situations and clothes: even then one does not see or hear him half enough and quite properly he is the soul of the party. Dorothy White, Las White, and others who have already been mentioned, give him assistance frequently in excellently arranged and staged numbers.