"LOOK WHO'S HERE"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 141, 4 March 1918, Page 3

"LOOK WHO'S HERE"

I THE FOURTH DOSE "WELCOMED. Mr. Jack Waller's "Look Who's Here" company administered their "fourth dose" to a well-pleased audience in the Grand Opera .house on Saturday night. The company consistently improves upon acquaintance. Its members, in their varying degrees,'are gifted and clever, and in music and comedy alike they excel. But the characteristic charm of their performance is duo to the creative skill of Mr. Waller and his assistants; displayed in the arrangements of turns, the evolving of a hundred glad and unexpected features, the perfecting of detail and the making of harmonious and effective stages. One of the early items on the new programme was a Scottish song by Miss Cecilia Gold and a team of lasses and laddies. It was a mixture of melody and whimsical absurdity that would be hard to beat. Then came a shopping burlesque, with tho extraordinarily versatile Mr. Wylie Watson as a' shop assistant, Mr. Jack Waller as the accountant, and other members of the company as the victims of their hilarious incompetence. Mr. Gregory Ivanoff proved again his rare skill as a violinist in a Rumanian Rhapsodic (Haueer). Ho had chosen a beautiful I composition, and he did it full justice, to the very great delight of his audience. Mr.' Wylie Watson came back again as a railway porter in a farcical sketch relating 1 to events on a Welsh railway station. The burlesque Hungarian orchestra, which consists of Mr. Waller, Mr. Wylie Watson, and Mr. F. W. Dennett, gave a demonstration on the subject of 'What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me Foi'i" while one of the lady members of the company made tho eyes with moving effect. Air. Waller was to the fore again in a scene with a moral. He was the soap-box orator and Mr. Howard Hall was the working man who had the proper allowance of common sense. Mr. Hall's robust voico had been heard a little earlier in character songs, which were not the least among tho musical attractions of the programme. The Dick Dorothy Trio sang tunefully and danced with their accustomed vim and grace, and Miss Ada Smart contributed a vocal operatic melody. The last turn on the first part of the programme was sheer joy,. Mr. Ivanoff (violin), Mr. Wyiie Watson ('cello), and Mr. F. W.. Dennett (piano) revived "sweet memories" in the form of selections from the operas, old and new. They are as strong a team of instrumentalists as might be found in a long journey, and they play tho things that please. The feature of the second part of the programme was "the intense, dramatic, soul-stirring, sporting, spectacular drama, 'Skiplano.' " A bporting baronet, his beautiful daughter, her gentlemanly lover, the scoundrelly .captain, the luring adventuress and tho loyal stable-boy were the dramatis personae. There was also a horse, a truly remarkable beast, and the drama followed the traditional, route to a. c'irarx that left a section of tho audience hjs-teric-1. Mr. Dennett played a pi'>no silo hi'lifiitly, and Mr. Watson made sweet music with the 'cello. Then there were the Gorgonzola Italian quartet and full Spaghetti chorus. The last item on the programme was "Carillon/ Sir Edward Elgar's masterpiece, recited by Mr. Waller and played by Messrs. Ivanoff, Watson, and Dennett, and the Purple Band, which had supplied accompaniments and overtures most successfully during the evening. The programme will be repeated each evening during this week.