"THE FORTY THIEVES."

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 111, 11 May 1923, Page 5

"THE FORTY THIEVES."

The pantomime, "The Forty Thieves," at the Grand Opera House, is proving a big attraction. There wag another large audience last night, and the many spectacles were witnessed and duly acknowledged with enthusiasm. Miss Mona Magnet makes a charming principal boy, and Miss Phyllis Beadon uses her grace, roice, and toe-daricing talents with' great success. Miss Magnet too dances eccentric numbers, and shares moat of the fun of the piece. Mr. Jack Cannot, as Ali Baba, is immense, and his community sing in "Aro You Working?"—the audience shouting with emphasis, "No, are you?"—is one of the hits of the extravaganza. There is really no cohesion in the plot, but the opportunity for fun is ever present, and Mr. Joe Brennan, as a shapely dame in confidential, expansive mood, is ideal to the role. In "The Forty Thieves" there is plenty of music, solo .and ballet dancing, and here the terpsichorean capabilities of Misses Phyllis Amery, a veritable sprite of rythym, and Daisy Yates are to be commended. Mr. Frederick Mackay as male dancer is splendid, and he also has a singing number. Edgley and Dawe, simultaneous dancers, have several numbers, and they present some fine work as comedians and burlesque steppers. The act of Mello and Nello, acrobats, is sensational, while others worthy of mention are Miss Ida Newton as second boy, Messrs. Reginald Roberts, George Willoughby, Norman Lee, and Joe Morris as the donkey. There will be a repetition to-night and a matine* to-morrow.