HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12315, 9 December 1925, Page 9

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

A POT-POURRI OF FUN. . There is snap and happiness, sparkling music, and a myriad shafts of fun in the new revue, “Words and Music,” staged by the Moon-Morris Company at His Majesty’s Theatre this week. It is a show of real quality. Their hour and a half show is a pot pourri of the stage, a series of reminiscences, as it J weie, with quite a few happily-conceiv-ed originalities sandwiched in here and there. The staging is particularly well carried out, and silks and satins help the brightness of tho revue in its dozen or more sketches. is the first essential of the revue, with humour a very close second, and certainly this revuo lacks neither. Nell Fleming and Ena Gordon, Syd. Burcliell and A. Beresford greatly pleased the audience with their vocal items, not least in their "musical memories” of “Chu Chin Chow,” “The Menv # Widow,” “La Boheme,” “The Bing Boys,” “Maid of tho Mountains.” “The Quaker Girl,” “The Dollar Princess,” “The Arcadians,” and “Carmen,” and George Moon and Edward Warrington, in their own conception of “the painters” pantomime burlesque, and as sailors with many memories of wild at sea, called forth enough laughter for any one evening, apart altogether from ; their shares of the musical memories and the lighter work of tho levue generally. On the vaudevilje side are Miss Enid Parker, a dainty violinist, who. upon her first appearance before a Wellington audience made a great hit -with Drdla’s “Souvenir”; Lillian Denville, danseuse; Charles Sherman, wTTn" stories at the piano; Morris and Cowley, with some new stories, and also some well-tried tales from the vaudeville circuit; and the Murfaynes,. ono at the piano and the other presiding over the xylophone.