MIMES AND MUSIC

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 18, 20 July 1918, Page 11

MIMES AND MUSIC

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THE SHOW 3. Grand Opera House: Jack Waller's Company, in season, Capelli, 27th, 29th, 30th July, Concert Chamber The Groat Malini, season commences to-

night. His Majestj-'s.--Vaudeville. The King's Theatre.—Pictures continuously. Crown Theatre.—Pictures nmlitlj; Our Theatre.—Pictur»R nightly. Sew Theatre.—Continuous Pictures, (impress TU?.iTc.—«'Jontiimotis Pictures. Kliortt's Pictures.—Continuous Pictures. People's Picture palace.- Continuous Pictures. Kritaiiiiia Theatre.- -Continuous Pictures. Everybody's Theatre.--Continuous Pictures. Queen's Pictures.- Continuous Pictures Paramount Theatre—Continuous Pictures.

George M. Cohan's real name is Martin Costigan.

George Portus plays a very distinguished looking doctor in the film " Australia's Own," now in course of production in Sydney.

Mr. Frank Levy is again ahead of the Allen Doone Company. He is at present in Auckland arranging for the commencement of the tour of the Dominion.

Fayette Perry, here with " Very Good Eddie," is holiday-making in Japan. She is looking'forward to her return to Sydney, when she will make her appearance on the Tivoli circuit.

Ada 'Reeve will leave Australia for South Africa at the end of July, and Sydney James, of "Strollers" fame, will go' with her as partner in the enterprise.

Capelli, the great tenor, made his first appearance on a New Zealand .concert platform at Auckland last week, and immediately made a great success. "Success,, emphatic and complete," is the way the Herald puts it. Signor Capelli was in splendid form, and he thrilled his hearers with the glorious qualities of his tones. Some of his items w (.re masterpieces of vocalisation, and at the close_ of the concert he was given an >vation. Capelli and his supporting

.ltist-s appear here shortly

This is how Dorothy Parker, the dramatic critic of Vanity Fair, describes ".Follow the Girl : "I don't like to say that I have seen worse shows and more if them than any other living woman— I do hato to be boastful. I merely wish to remark that I saw 'Let's Go' and 'Follow the Girl' on two successive nights. I think that will cover the

case." After reviewing "Let's Go," Miss Parker goes on to say : "And there was 'Follow the Girl/ Only the fact that I saw 'The Love Mill' ' last month prevents .me from hailing 'Follow the Girl' as the world's worst show." And it was in this piece (says the Green Room) that Dorothy Brunton made her American debut. No wonder she never had a chance!

"The Enemy Within," an Australian film,, in which that well-known Australian • athlete.sßeg. ("Snowy") Baker, is the star, is to be shown here shortly. Mr. "Billy" Low has obtained the rights of the picture for New Zealand. This is Mr. Baker's initial venture in the "movies," and "The Enemy Within" gives him plenty of scope to show his athletic prowess, as all the sensational feats were actually performed by.. him, fakes being disdained. .The picture is said to be an excellent example of what can be done in Australian film production. ' - • • ■

• Tho record-breaking revue "The Bing Boys Are Here," which delighted Sydney and Melbourne theatregoers for over six months, is to be presented in Wellington shortly. Sparkling music, screamingly funny situations, magnificent pageants, wonderful colour schemes, some delicate, some. flamboyant, some of quiet harmony, and some of daring contrasts, and glorious scenic' effects, are said to be many of the numerous items in which this production abounds. It has been abundantly proved that New Zealand playgoers like this kind of entertainment, composed of spectacle, comedy, and melody; and with this knowledge, the Williamson management, it is stated, has accomplished a feat in production such as never previously.had a parallel in revue in this country. From the first rising of the curtain till the finale there is a succession of scenes, ballets, choruses, burlesques, dialogues, and numerous songs'. The richness of the dressing and scenery is said .to be beyond previous stage experience in Australasia.

Miss Muriel Starr difln't know whether to be angry or amused the other day when she passed through the Melbourne streets and saw placards on almost every wall: "Have: you seen Muriel Starr with the Man Who Came Back?" Wherever she went the 'question glared at her from the walb. - The town pretty soon saw the joke, and hundreds of telephone messages were received by the popular actress, asking her what she had done with the man who had come back, or some other jocular message relating to the poster. Miss .Starr, however, has a sense of humour, and enjoyed the joke as much as the publicity man who had been responsible for it. The result was an impetus to the boom "The Man Who' Came Back" has been enjoying at the Theatre Royal. For the most of us (says a writer in the Sydney Daily Telegraph), any comparison of the standards of production here and abroad is a matter oJ«'pure conjecture. We have to rely upon visitors for tho necessary information. The latest witness is Miss Margaret Wycherly. Please not to remember, that this lady 'confesses in "The 13th Chair" that for the better part of her life she has been a faker. Miss Wycherly attended the final rehearsal of "Oh, Boy!" at Her Majesty's yesterday. She saw the musical comedy several times in New York. "The production there," she says, "is not nearly as massive as it is here. It was on the small scale, as most of the Americanmusica! pieces are, outside the big spectacular shosvs at such houses as the Hippodrome and the /Winter Garden. I can see that in the Sydney production it has been built up by a lot of clever invention. The same thine struck mo with 'Katinka,' which I saw in New York and tho other day in Melbourne. The Melbourne production had been added to considerably. In New Fork, of course, all the theatres begin at 8.30, and are out before 11. Here they are fully half an ..hour longer, though you have contrived to make them not appear so. Provided the people are clever and can keep tho audience amused with the dialogue and situations, very few numbers are needed to pleaso New York audiences. Here you give as many novelty numbers in one production as you would get in two or three musical plays in • America. Mr. Ward tells me that at limes he has bought'two musical plays, and the best features of each are blended into one show. I don't know what would hapoen to him if he did that in America. Probably'he would be expelled from the managers' association for giving overweight!" Mr. Field Fisher, suffering from laryngitis, was out of the bill of "Canary Cottage" at Her Majesty's in Sydney ono night recently. "It is the first time I've missed a show in twenty-three years," he apologised.