‘THE BELLE OF NEW YORK’

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 61, 5 December 1930, Page 6

‘THE BELLE OF NEW YORK’

To-morrow'at the Grand Opera House, commencing at the matinee, the J. C. Williamson. Ltd., management will present thejr “New Moon” company, of one hundred urtjsts, in the up-to-date 11)30 representation of everybody’s favourite comic opera, “The Belle of New York, which is everywhere proving the most successful musical play staged in recent older generation of play-goers the revival of “The Belle” will be doubly welcome because it will revive cherished memories and it will give them another opportunity to listen to the glorious melodies of this charming musical play and to enjoy the eccentricities of the Polite Lunatic and Ichabod Bronson. To the youngei generation it will be appreciated in the light of a revelation, because “The Belle is undoubtedly, musically and otherwise, superior to any musical play staged during the past twenty years. The fact that the present company's performance of Ine Belle of New York” Is said to excel jwy previous production of it has also added to the Interest in to-morrow night s revival,, aud It will probably be welcomed by a record audience. Like the music in the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, the melodies of “The Belle of New York” are as fresh and as popular to-day as when they were first'beard thirty years ago. Probably the best known numbers in the opera are “Little bister Klssv,” “Teach Me How to Kiss,” "We Come this Way,” "Wine, Women and Song,” “La Belle Parisienne,’ ’ M.v LHtle Baby,” "Pretty Little China Girl,! I' Ol- . low On,” “She Is the Belle of New York, "When We Were Married.” "The' Purity Brigade,” “I Do, So There,” '“Coogan s Fancy Ball,” “On the Beach at Narriigknsett,” “For the Twentieth Time.: .Me 11 Drink,” “At Ze Naughty Folios Bergere,’’. “When a Man is Twenty-one,” and When I was Born tho Stars Stood Still,. AVe Como this Way,” ' and The AntiCigarette Society.” . ; _ Great interest is being centred in the reappearance of the brilliant and Popular comedian, Mr. Leslie Holland, who will once again ■ delight us with his incomparable characterisation of the role of Ichabod Bronson. Jim Gerald should be at his.very best in the important part of Blluky Bill, in -which he achieved an outstanding success in Australia. . . IMo box j plans are now open at the Bristol for the I whole season of seven nights. , * .i