AMUSEMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 16050, 29 February 1916, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

PRINCESS THEATRE-MISS DAISY JEROME. Hie Daisy Jerome magnet drew heaps more people than the Princess Theatre could accommodate last night, and Manaß'er. Hamer bad to regretfully begij\ the lurnmg-awny process some 20 "minutes be-, fore 8 o’clock. Consequent!v it was a house crammed from iloor to “ceiling that so warmly greeted tho sparkling little comedienne as she burst on to Hie stage and asked in her breezy manner; “How’s everyone here? All right, eh?" From that moment until she made a characteristic exit with the confidential explanation to the boys” that she was “going now to have a glass of milk with mother,” the audience simply bubbled with delight. Miss Jerome sang five songs, with friend!v chats to the ‘ <^lo^lse,, between, times, in her quick, electric spark-like way, and whether singing or talking she had everyone in her grip. The songs she chose lor her opening night were not new to Dunedin (indeed, Miss Jerome herself sang four of them on her first visit here 18 months ago), but they “went” because Daisy .Jerome sang them; 'because she infused into them new life, originality, and. ns she herself puts it, “ plenty of ginger.” They were evidently chosen, too, with a view to demonstrating tho singer’s versa-’ tility, and it was truly astonishing to see one minute a pathetic little figure’with big, sad eyes and bright copper-color hair kneeling at tho footlights singing feelingly of a man and his dying mother, and tho next madly ramping, shouting around, tho stage, her eyes glad and merry and her voice full of bantering warning" while she sang her well-known azure-tinted ditty ‘Pull for tho Shores’ ‘ln tho Heart of a City that has Ho Heart,’ ‘She’s Learned a Little Bit Since Then,’ and ‘ Do They All Go to See tho Sea?’ were her other contributions. There is absolutely- no doubt about it, Daisy Jerome is irresistible. Miss Jerome (who, by the way, has with her on this occasion a special accompanists) announced last night that sho intended offering prizes for a singing competition to be held next week. This with cl view to unearthing: local talent. Tho only now act in the rest of tho programmes was that of tho Mullancy Twins, patter comedians and dancers, and their work met with general favor, the dancing part of tho act being particularly good. The offering by Miss Amy Murphy and Miss Kellie Black was again a most acceptable one, Miss Murphy being at her best in ‘ Poor Wandering One ’ (‘ Pirates of Penzance’), and Miss Black scoring heavily with her patriotic song ‘ Keep the Home Fires Burning,’ and with her violinplaying. The La Mert Brothers put on a fresh turn, the best item of a good bunch being the whistling of stirring national airs, the Hags of the Allies being effectively introduced from the flies. Laurence Johnston, the clever ventriloquist, and his quaint doll again kept the audience thoroughly amused, a new set of “ gags ” and stories arousing boisterous laughter. Miss Eloise Taylor (soprano) and Mandel and Nagel (musicians) repeated their last week’s success, and Bates and Wade put a good finish to an excellent programme with their neat and clever hand-balancing. Miss Jerome and the others will appear again this evening. TO-MORROW EVENING s CLEMENT WRAGGE. Au ’intellectual treat is in etora to-mor-row evening, when Clement L. Wragge, astronomer and meteorologist, will give bis popular and instructive entertainment in the Burns Hall, when an entirely new subject entitled ‘The Eternal Universe and tho War’ will be given. Mr Wragge imparts a fund of valuable information, and treats the subject in a most attractive form. The entertainment will embrace tho latest photographic views from the leading observatories of the world, including pictures of our fellow planets, giant suustornis, the birth and deaths of other worlds, sunrise and sunset on the moon as revealed through the gigantic telescopes of Paris and Lick Observatories. That marvellous substance “radium” will be displayed during the season. Reserved teats at The Bristol.