HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1926, Page 10

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

*!.• i l 1? t| ™ the revue Presented this week by the Phil Smith Musical Comedy Company, is set in two very different atmospheres, ■ the Hotel Victoria, where merry parties gather to "spot" in defiance of . the law, and the Court-room, where the merrymakers, including the Magistrate, meet after the raid, finding each other's identities for the first time. Phil Smith, as the pompous father gradually thawing amidst the well-lubricated smiles of a bevy of gladsome minxes, until he is the hilarious life and soul of the party, managta to escape the raid (in the course of which he has to take shelter under the same table with his unsuspected wife), but he appears decorated with much sticking plaster to sentence heavily-veiled females the next morning. The Court scene is well burlesqued, and the clever plot which links the pleasing medley of Bong and dance is a ■ welcome change. William Greene, as Major Bullock, who takes the Magistrate's wife to the hotel, has a catchy song with Phyllis Nicholson, "Gee, I've Got a Wonderful Baby." Peggy Peate, as a youthful step mother, sang "All Alone," and was warmly applauded in her duet with Robert Raymond, "Memory Lane." Nat Hanley was versatile as a musical hotel proprietor and policeman, and whistled forte opera piercingly. Wee Willie' Lancet, the pocket comedian from the Old Country, made a welcome reappearance in many new "isms," assisted by Edward Avon and' Muriel Dale. Wendling and Molloy, singers and dancers, Florence and Clifton, comedy gymnasts, and Hawaiian melodies by the Kailis, filled the rest of the vaudeville side of the entertainment capably.