ELLA SHIELDS

Evening Star, Issue 17928, 25 March 1922, Page 8

ELLA SHIELDS

Mr Harry G. Musgrovo will introduce to a Dunedin audience at His Majesty’s Theatre on Wednesday next the _ celebrated male impressionist, Ella Shields, a star of paramount vaudeville importance. 1 She has just completed seasons of eight weeks each in Melbourne and Sydney. In every character, from the swagger middy of the King’s Navy to the ■battered personality of “ Burlington Bertie,” she is said to hold the audience completely. She is the immaculate boy, and at the same time always deliciously feminine. Miss Shields, says an exchange, has an extensive repertoire of male impersonations, and restraint is the keynote of her success. Whether as the shabby genteel Bertie or the blithesome middy, though always busy, she is never boisterous, and the English comedienne never strikes a false note. An inimitable shrug, a dainty flirt of the hand, a little trick of voice inflexion, a leaven of jauntiness, an indescribable swagger—that is Ella Shields as she wins her way into the confidence of her audience. Miss Shields will have the support of her own company of imported vaudeville artists, consisting of Mr and Miss Tree (musical mentalists, who created a very favorable impression in Australia), the three Jacksons (described as sensational equilibrists), Maurice Sterndale (the African jazz violinist), Brooke and Cahill (in music, song, and story), Nancy Cook (a winsome soubrelte, with handsome frocks), Harko (the comedy cartoonist). Con Moreni (of pantomime dame fame), and Togo (an eccentric juggler). The box plan is npw open at The Bristol.