THE MARCUS SHOW

Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 15

THE MARCUS SHOW

ANOTHER BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE Another brilliant performance of ‘La Vie Paree ’ was presented by the Marcus Show at His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday night, the large audience again revelling in the gay and vivacious show presented by this outstanding company. The speed with which each act followed the other was a triumph of skill on the part of the stage management, and tho lavish staging is one of the bright features of a great show, ‘ BROADWAY VANITIES.’ If northern seasons can be_ relied upon, ‘ Broadway Vanities,’ which will be staged to-night, should see a further brilliant season for tho Marcus Show in Dunedin. Although tho new revue will present a complete change, it is said to have all tho features which made such a sensation in the earlier production. Thei;e will be the same type of comedy,' ballets, and settings of spectacular brilliance and vivid colour, tho same lovely girls in a different but equally fascinating series of frocks, and the same clever specialty artists, presenting a variation of their previous performances. Ben M‘Atee carries the burden of most of tho comedy, and the sparkle and spontaneity of his “ wise-cracks ” have a flavour and a sauciness that adds to the intrinsic value of their wit. M'Atee is a comedian with a breezy personality that makes an immediate anpeal. He is supported in his role of chief jester by a clever band of assistants in Bob "Dyer, Dorothy Coudy, Georgine Millar, Ha Cha_ San, Lee Mason, Sparky Kaye, Lillian M‘Coy, and Harold Boyd. The dancing is delightful and apparently inexhaustible in its variety. Leon Miller, of the nimble feet; the sinuous Sharon do Vries, the dancing Bernays, Sylvia Lee, and A 1 Ricker look after this department of the show with an efficiency seldom equalled in the experience of New Zealand theatre-goers. Tho spectacular effects are achieved by tho employment of almost every known artifice of the theatre.