PRINCESS THEATRE

Evening Star, Issue 18136, 28 November 1922, Page 8

PRINCESS THEATRE

No new faces on the hill at the Princess Theatre last night, but the next best thing happened—tho stop-overs all changed their acts. It was an elongated Da’benni for instance, who started the -show —a lenfoofc Dalbeani—and he did some absii •: funny things on overgrown bicycles. Th.n he cut himself down to normal height., and did more clever things on other bikes, on ladders, and on cart wheels’. It was a. comedy act throughout this time, and a good one. Jean Lc ■ Roi—assisted by a boy and a broken-English accent., neither of which was present all the time—put oven a fresh series of sleight-of-hand hicks in which watches that the audience distinctly saw embedded! in a jar of jam turned up, quite clean and bright, fastened to the neck ribbon of a live rabbit. A pound note, apparently -swallowed by the boy, was in reality passed by a wave of tho magic wand into the interior of a, lemon. And so on ; all bewildering enough to warrant tho applause given. Signor and Signora Molinari, now looked upon as fellow-citizens, were in fine form, signor's ‘Let Mo Like a Soldier Fall’ and signora’s ‘ Love Will Find, a Way ’ being most enjoyable; while two ducts were capitally sung. Mr and Mrs Kennedy Allen's act was a characteristic offering. First, a few jokes and a song or two by the male partner, and then a sketch in which the pair endeavored to introduce the Old English atmosphere. Tho lady looked well in ye olde-fashioned costume, and her partner wore his red tail-coat with an air. Tho revue, which was called ‘ Any Lady?’ might have been named anything else without arousing an argument. Last week tl»© Sunbeams gave us a revue with a plot; this week' they've put on a string of frenzied foolishness, so to speak. Some of it was clover enough and funny enough to deserve the laughs which greeted it; .some, on tho other hand', wan just rough-and-tumble, gag-ulong, disconnected fun. this often gamed laughter, too, of course, though the conscientious comedians concerned doubtless blushed when they hoard it. Doddiy Hurl and Harry Evans created most of tho amusing situations, Victor Dyer, in tho role of a panto, dame, helping at intervals. Thor© were some catchy musical numbers, Patsy Hill and Dave M‘GLU perhaps providing llio choicest. The dancing Sunbeams brightened up the proceedings considerably, and their presence as a chorus always enhanced those particular items. ‘Any Lady?’ is just what wo lia.vo come to accept as a, typical “revue,” and as such may ho enjoyed.