SPARKLING MUSICAL PLAY

Evening Star, Issue 19064, 6 October 1925, Page 9

SPARKLING MUSICAL PLAY

1 KID BOOTS * The box plans will be opened for ‘Kid .Boots’ and ‘Good Morning. Dearie,’ tho new productions of the J. 0. Williamson Musical Comedy Company, at Tho Bristol Piano Company’s on Tuesday morning next. According to contemporaneous opinion, ‘Kid Boots,’ the new J. CL Williamson musical play to be seen in Dunedin on Saturday next at His Majesty’s Theatre, is "something out oi the common. It comes with a host oi excellent critical notices. The Wellington ‘ Dominion ’ writes of the play as follows:—“Just as the earth rotates round the sun, so does ‘Kid Boots,’ produced in brilliant fashion by the Williamson Musical Comedy Company at Hie Grand Opera-house last night, rotate round a golf ball. It is a loaded ball at that, and more ‘loaded’ in its effect than anyone suspects. Golf is the leit-motive, and it provides a series of- stirring scenes—of sunlit meadows, gay golf-houses, wonderful dresses, awful sox, silver cups, and clusters of beautiful girls, who m the most delightful way suggest the laughing spirit oi spring and youth. ‘Kid Boots,’ in snort, is one of those fascinating creations of the lyric stage which captures an audience from the rise of the curtain, and, in tho ascending scale, provides a gallery of glowing scones animated by some wonderful dancing and the best buffoonery seen for many a long day. Moreover, it reintroduces those gifted performers—Miss Josie Melville, as daintily naive and charming as ever, and Mr George Gee, who as Kid Boots keeps the fun bubbling with his vital personality, sound mummery, and sure comedy touch. There is an excellent cast all round, and an ensemble that fills tho eye and ravishes tho senses by its ordered animation and ever-varying color schemes.” The story is embellished with a plethora of comic scenes which keep tho audience in a slate ol exuberant mirth tho evening through. An exceptionally fine all-round cast interprets the play, ‘ Kid Boots ’ will be played for the first four nights, and will bs succeeded for tho next three nights by ‘ Good Morning, Dearie,’ a musical comedy also new to Dunedin playgoers.