AMUSEMENTS.

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13656, 25 August 1916, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

.■''.'■ THE TIVOLI FOLLIES. ;'■ To-night's big fun show at the ■ Opera House will introduce to Oamaru several new'artists, while most of the oh] favourites will,appear in new specialities. The -Tivoli Follies, under the ■personal direction of Mr Hugh D. Mcintosh, have gone on building up the show the twelve months they have been away front-New Zealand, and the production opening this evening is guaranteed the best dumps-dispelling medicine thht has ever been imported.- Seeing what a huge success The Follies proved ei-ereywhere they visited last year, (lie second season should prove a triumph, iis.no fewer than sixty performers are making the trip, headed,by Australia's recognised queen of beauty, Miss 'Vera Pearce; This artist is a versatile revue performer, and in to-night's show will introduce •*'Racket ty Coo," the "Kept Pit Girl," in which she displays her athletic prowess, and the "Honolulu Dance," in which she demonstrates her versatility by a splendid interpretation of the native poi poi dance.' Jack 'Cannot .'s amusing ''Gilbert the Pilb'ert" of last year will be missing from {(..programme that is entirely new, but he/returns with "Colonel. "K'Ntit,'' a song of the. same-type," while his pat; riotii--.cfl'orts 'in "Mary, Jane, and Loir" is sure to arouse intense enthusiasm. Another of Mr Cannot's items is "Spanish Joe from Mexico," with topical verses on the present Mexican trouble, Three comedians in Walter 'Weeks (a dusky raconteur), George Welch (an amusing inebriate), ami Billy Bego (a quaint diminutive pantoniiiiiist')' will, all present nets entirely new.! "Piano Movers" is guaranteed' one of I the funniest sketches ever staged, while their antics in "A Bar Scene," assisted by Jack Cannot, and .others, is a long scream, Frank Greene returns with a batch of sentimental songs, but. his,, effort will be. in the. grave and solemn "Carillon," that beautiful poem of Cammaert's, which lias been set to appropriate music by Sir Edward Elgar. Mr Greene will be dressed in the uniform of a Belgian private, the uniform belonging to one of the members of the.Belgian Band who -was present at the,siege of Liege. The Belgian Band wilt assist in tlihritcin,' and'seeing they have all fought for their country their assistance will be singularly appropriate. Jean Keith will re-introduce herself: in the Champagne Dance, , while j Peggy Pente, a.chic soubrette, will also; be well to the fore. Although The Pol-; lies, themselves are a pantomime show,! they will have the support of a star vaudeville first/part; which will serve to iutroducu to New Zealand audiences'the "girl with the voice of gold," and a comedy .acrobatic, team. in,, Short „aiid Little "iyho^^ixuxc^JJ.ij l re js- something new in tumbling. The box plan, is at The Bristol, with day sales as usual!