BOYS' REVUE COMPANY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23272, 15 February 1939, Page 16

BOYS' REVUE COMPANY

SEASON OPENS TO-MORROW Sparkling comodv , and brilliant instrumental items are features of the entertaining programme to be presented by the Young Australian Boys' Band and Revue Party at His Majesty's Theatre commencing to-morrow night. Matinees will be held on Saturdays and Wednesdays. The boys have travelled more than 30.000 miles on tours of South Africa and other overseas countries, and have won praise from critics at home and abroad. The company appeared before inoro than 500,000 people in Rhodesia and South Africa, and played 78 consecutive performances in Johannesburg. The outstanding figure in the programme is Colin Croft, female impersonator, while George Nichols gives some very realistic impersonations of well-known screen actors and actresses. Six feet five inches in height, Ron Morris is the tallest-o:f the party and is a comedian of outstanding ability. Other prominent members of the company are Charles Stanton, 14-year-old drum major, conductor and tap dancer; Fen Robertson, xylophonist; Neil Webb, champion cornet player of Victoria; Les Waterhouse, piario-accordeonist; and George Schilling, pianist. The pianoaccordeon "band"is one of the outstanding attractions on the programme, the work of 1 this combination being of an exceptionally high standard. Box plans axe now ; open.