LONG TACK SAM

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 208, 30 May 1936, Page 4

LONG TACK SAM

Season Opens To-day It has been acknowledged throughout the world that Long Tack Sam and his troupe of twenty Oriental marvels are the most highly-paid vaudeville attraction. They come to Wellington flushed with the. successes in America, London, Paris, Berlin, and Australia, where for 48 performances the Theatre Royal was crowded at each session, as was also the case, on the occasion of their last visit here some few years ago. Although a Chinese born. “Sam” speaks seven languages fluently, besides a smattering of four others. His talented daughter, Miss Nee Sa Long, also speaks several languages, and play-, four instruments. The European section of the performance is headed by the Four La Salles, described as the skating sensation of Europe, concluding their act with a “loop-the-loop” on skates. .Tandy, the French musical clown, plays a varied collection of odd instruments. The lighter side is in the capable hands of Dorn Lindsay, the famous Scottish comedienne from the Alhambra. Glasgow. Maseotte and Maurice, whirlwind dancers from the Follies Bergere, Astor., another one of Paris’s popular artists. Pau] and I,eon, dancers, all go to make a show that constitutes vaudeville in its best form. The company arrives to-day.