J.C. WILLIAMSON VAUDEVILLE

Evening Star, Issue 19020, 15 August 1925, Page 3

J. C. WILLIAMSON VAUDEVILLE

“WEE" GEOUGIE WOOD AND GOMPAKY

The “ Peter Pan of Vaudeville,” Wee Georgie Wood, heads the company appearing at His Majesty’s Theatre 101 a season of sis nights and two matinees commencing on Monday next. the new combination is the seventh selected from J. C. Williamson’s vaudeville theatres in Sydney and. Melbourne, and all acts are of international repute. the standard set by such well-known artists as Bransby Williams, Hetty King, Harry "Weldon, the Havana Baud, and Lon" Tack Sara is said to bo fully maintained in this latest offering. Wee Georgie Wood comes wth a, repntaton of being in New York and London onp of the biggest box office attractions in vaudeville; also he is one oi tho most popular performers seen in pantomime in England. His return visit to Australia °vas just one loim series of successes. A critic of the Bulletin, Sydney, of June 11, lydo, says: the diminutive genius still retains the freshness and whimsical charm that won him thousands of barrackers during his first visit—an appealing study, a pathetic, humorous little figure, with the house yelling itself hoarse'” Georgie .Wood is supported in the sketches by his own company, including Dolly Hamer and Tom Bl'ackiock. The J. C. W illiamson acts included in the programme are the “ Beau Brummel ” of vaudeville, Billy Maloney, in up-to-date songs and steps; tho Aldor- Trio, from tho Moss-Stoll circuit; Marie Lawton, with her piano and harp; Frank’s Canine Statuary, doscribed us an act beautiful ; and Jay Whidden, the versatile violinist, who is billed as an entertainer and composer oi originality. Eddie Leslie and his Columbia Syncopators are a dance jazz band from the Hotel Cecil, London, who have scored a big hit in the north; and, billed as the Russian Scot, Noil.M Kay, with his songs, dances, and piping, presents what a critic of the tress, Christchurch, describes as ‘ the limit of Scotch humorisms.” The. box plans for the season are at The Bristol.