PRINCESS THEATRE
‘•BETTE OB BtJBMAH* MONDAY.
This evening the Walter George Sun*' shine Players will present ‘ln Arizona* for the lost time, and the current programme of vaudeville which supports it at the Princess Theatre will also he performed finally. On Monday evening the popular revuists enter upon the eighth week of their season, presenting first time in Australosia a .antastep musical comedy of the East entitled ‘Thp Belle of Burmah.’ The action of the piece takes place outside a Burmese temple,' and the stage nresente a gorgeous Oriental picture, both costumes and scenery and accessories having cost a considerable sum of money and occasioned some overtime in their hastv preparation in Dunedin. The story is that of an Engluh girl imprisored by tli'e priests of the temple and doomed to bo sacrificed 5 but this rather melodramatic idea is worked up from the comedy angle in _ the rescue planned; by the ex-jockey aviator (Qeo. Storey), whose, part offers some splendid tooical matter the aviation craze. Amongst the big ballets will 1 be the jockey number, in which the girk i wear_ the racing colons of some of Dominion’s best-known racohorse-owners, On, the vaudeville side a, big new comedy) act is promised in Jennings and Gerald, " '
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Evening Star, Issue 17329, 17 April 1920, Page 9
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206PRINCESS THEATRE Evening Star, Issue 17329, 17 April 1920, Page 9
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