AT THE KING’S

Evening Star, Issue 17578, 5 February 1921, Page 2

AT THE KING’S

AUSTRALIAN CHAPLIN AND THE TEDDY BEAR. A packed house at the King’s Theatre this afternoon assembled to witness the new carnival programme, which was presented for the first time, when the piece de resistance was the first appearance cf Mr Cyril Verne, the Australian Charles Chaplin, assisted by Dorothy, in bis eccentric and most entertaining sketch, ‘ Charlie at tho Party,’ in , which some diverting patter and comic joggling were introduced. Tho second Chaplin began his sketch with a card trick, in Nvhich the eight of spades was discovered in a most mysterious way beneath the table; but when tho audience discovered that every card in the pack was an eight of spades it simply roared with laughter And so it wont on with every fresh trick; every mystery was similarly exploded. At lab “Chaplin” invited someone to come on the stage and have a glass of lemonade out of an empty bottle. Ha turned the bottle upside down, packed sawdust in it, and emptied it again, and everyone saw it was empty. Then a young man came along and was handed in quick succession, eight glasses of lemonade mm the empty bottle. Ho ■dra'nk tho lot, but had tu refuse the ninth, so that that glass and the tenth were spilled on the stage. Nobody saw how tbe trick was dono, and it was tbe only one not explained. The teddy boar created quite a sensation amongst the children, it being taken round the audience for a closer inspection. It is about eighteen inches in height arid is no doubt a replica of the toy whicn has been so dear to the heaitrof the young generation. ■