ELLA SHIELDS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 99, 5 April 1922, Page 3

ELLA SHIELDS.

Mr. Harry C. Musgrove will introduce to a Hastings audience at the Muirfeipal Theatre next Monday and Thursday evenings the celebrated male impressionist, Ella Shields, a star of paramount vaudeville importance. She has just completed seasons of eight weeks each in Melbourne and Sydney. In every character, from the swagger middy of the King’s Navy to the battered personality of “Burlington Bertie,” she is said to hold the audience completely. She is the immaculate boy, at the same time alway deliciously Feminine. Miss Shields has an extensive repertoire of male impersonations, and restraint is the keynote of her success. Whether as the shabby, genteel Bertie or the blithsome middy, though always busy, she is never boisterous, and the English comedienne never strikes a false note. An inimitable shrug, a dainty flirt of the hand, a little trick of voice inflection, a leaven of jauntiness, an indescribable swagger—that is Ella Shields as she wends her way into the confidence of her audience. Miss Shields will have the support of her own company of imported vaudeville artists, consisting of Mr. and. Miss Tree, musical mentalists, who created a very favourable impression in Australia; the three Jacksons (described as sensational equilibrists); Maurice, the American Jazz violinist; Brook and Cohill, in music, song and story; Nancy Cooks, a winsome soubrette with handsome frocks ; Harke, the comedy cartoonist; Togo, a slip-slap stick juggler; and Con Moreni, of pantomime dame fame. The box plan will open Friday at Riddell’s.