PLAYS and PLAYERS
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Heralded by European and American eulogiums in which he has been hailed as an almost superhuman combination of the qualities of Rubinstein, Paderewski, Busoni, de Bachmann ami about every other picturesque and commanding pianist of to-day or yester day, Pouishnoff has far more to live up to than any other player of his generation. It will, indeed, be a privilege to hear this artist of forty, who is thus at his very prime, during the tour he is making of Australia and New Zealand in association with that superb vocalist, Horace Stevens, and under the management of Mr. Hugo Larsen. ♦ * • The only word with which to describe “White Horse Inn” is “colossal.” This J. C. Williamson Ltd. production is playing to packed houses at the Theatre Royal. .Sydney, and as it is doing such enormous business, its ojien ing date at the New His Majesty’s Theatre. Melbourne, is still Indefinite “White Horse Inn" is the biggest stage production ever attempted In Australia i
More than 120 artists take part in the three acts, which comprise no fewer than 15 different scenes. There are 2 7 musical numbers, dances, and ballets “White Horse Inn” will be presented as the opening production at the New His Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne with all the latest stage effects and : devices, including revolving stage and a new system of lighting which has not yet been used outside of Berlin and London. "White Horse Inn” has been described as “the last word” in stage production. . « » « "A bright, snappy and colourful entertainment. which evoked immediate cordial response from a house of almost capacity dimensions, marked the open ng of the Auckland season if Clem Dawe’s Comedy Revue Company," says the “Auckland Star” “The revue presented was a combination of song, ’dance, music and comedy episodes in colourful settings and rollicking rotation Clem Dawe's facial and sartorial drolleries supplied most of the comedy in lightning character sketches and sallies of jest and merry mots.”
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 221, 15 June 1934, Page 16
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332PLAYS and PLAYERS Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 221, 15 June 1934, Page 16
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