FRANK NEIL REVUE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 296, 10 September 1937, Page 7

FRANK NEIL REVUE

“Lucky Stars” Popular

The new Frank Neil revue, “Lucky Stars,” now showing at the Grand Opera House, Wellington, is drawing packed houses. This company managed to hit the popular taste from the outset of the season, and such is its individual brilliance and collective strength that large audiences have been the rule. Once more the audience was thrilled by the daring and graceful performance of <?on Coleano, who, in gay Spanish attire and to the music of castanets, dances a la Espagnola on the tight-wire with all the freedom and abandon of a cabaret star. Irene Vermillion and her Dart Trumpeters repeated their attractive performance. Bob Parrish, the coloured radio artist, made his impression last evening in "The Good Green Acres of Home,” crooned artistically, “Would You?” (from the picture “San Francisco”) and repeated his stunning interpretation of “Ole Man River (from “The Show Boat”). Among the clever people in this company are the deft Broadway Tappers, two extremely clever knock-about dancers who always excite admiration. The lady in the case is not only gracefully acrobatic, but tap-dances on her tip-toes until it makes one’s feet ache contemplating this unconventional feat. The ballets are particularly good in the new review, and Miss Peggy Waddington is to be congratulated on the ingenuity with which she has planned them, notably perhaps that graceful and picturesque ballet, "The Beautiful Lady in Blue,” in which the dancers trail clouds of cornflower blue diaphanously, as a floating framework to the song, which is nicely sung by Miss Margaret Grimshaw.