ANNETTE KELLERMAN'S VISIT TO WELLINGTON.

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 138, 8 December 1921, Page 3

ANNETTE KELLERMAN'S VISIT TO WELLINGTON.

It is announced that the famous swimmer, Annette Kellerman, is to visit Wellington on.Thursday next with her own company of Tivoli Follies. The countless thousands who have admired the beauty of Annette KellermanV figure on the screen wiU now nave an opportunity of seeing the lady herself at the Grand Opera House on Thursday* next. A huge crystal tank has been specially constructed for Annette Kellenrfan's aquatic act. A delicate child in' the bef inning, Annette Kellerman eradicated er weaknesses of physique and developed a perfect body iy recourse to the virtues of hard exeTc'ise and the clean air of the open. She is, perhaps, the only great woman swimmer whose work is always beautiful to the eye. ' The water has become her ) natural element.But her gifts, we are told, do not end there. Caring for her body, she has not neglected her brain. To a.rare intelligence she adds the gift of a vivid temperament that is most strikingly magnetic. She dances with fine exuberance and a remarkable mastery of technique, She sings joyously and ,' without strain. She has an irrepressible sense of humour. Miss Kellerman will be supported by the I'ivoli Fojlies International Vaudeville Company, including Brightie and Carlyon from the. Coliseum, London, in dainty singingl and dancing1; Florence Penney, contralto; Martini, a funny man with a dog; Little and Ship, two funmakers, whose vocal items are said to be above the ordinary; the Vardells, sensational acrobats and gymnasts; the Dancing Donnellys; and Stuart Barnes, an American raconteur, humorist, and storyteller from ijhe Palace Theatre, New_ York, and Empire Theatre, London, in his own sketch,, "My Wife's First Husband John." The box plan for the six nights' season will open, at the Bristol at 9 a.m. on Tuesday next.