AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 April 1929, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE.

George Storey and Dulcie Milner, the' well-known and popular revue artists, will make their secpnd appear- ; ance. af the Opera House to-night, in ! conjunction with the comedy success, ; “Ladies’ Night.” The personal ap- ; pearance of .George Storey and his ’ dainty partner should prove of. the > greatest interest to amusement, lovers in Greymouth. George Storey has for : years been associated with. Fuller’s ’ everywhere in Australasia, where as • principal revue comedian, with Dulcie : Milner, he built up a remarkable re- ■ puiation. Both these celebrated enter- ■ tainers will give the picked successes ; of their extensive repertoire. SPORTS CLUB’S DANCE.

The Sport’s Club Dance in the United Pavilion in the evening proved one of the most enjoyable in the Cluiys history. Ttys floor was crowded, Steel’s Orchestra provided •splendid music, and a delightful supper was served by an energetic committee of ladies. The Club’s President,’Mr W.J. Joyce, referred, during the function, to the success of the Club in both its sports meeting and dance, and eulogised particularly the work done by the ladies. spluttered as the scalding liquid poured down his throat. But, like Sir Herbert Tree, he quickly regained his composure and continued his part, which at that point consists of one of the longest Speeches ever given' to an actor by an author.

One caii also hear told the story of how James Welch was the victim of a practical joke in “When Knights Were Bold.” He had to pretend to drink a tumblerful of neat whisky -in the last act, and one night it was real whisky! Down it went, and Welch’s performance that night progressed in a crescendo of cheerfulness. When at last the curtain fell, he was far too amiable to worry over the identity of the jokers. One of the cast of “Broadway” relates that when the play was running at the Adelphi all the bootleg whisky drunk in the production was real, a policy that • was followed not in the interests of realism but because the members of the cast were all Americans in England for the first time, and they had not had a real drink for years. -“Fallen Angels,” the Noel Coward comedy, was another play in which the champagne was not always cider. It is said that Tallulah Bankhead, with characteristic generosity, often bought genuine Pol Roger for the cast. Mention of “Bill” Lewin’s lobster salads is another item of sage food

that awakens diverting memories in the “profession.” “Bill” Lewin, a famous' property man, had tile job of making lobster salad for“ Mr. Todd’s Experiment.” ' Although the salad was. only for show purposes, “Bill”always insisted on the real thing, arid so t accomplished did he become that very ' sight of ' the disli made the artists’ mouths water so iriuch that their diction was affected. Then there was the roast fowl in “The Cinderella Man.’' Owen Nares arid 'Rene'e Kelly sriared a’wing in the play, arid the remainder of the bird was bought each night by a different stage hand and taken home.