THEATRE ROYAL.

NZ Truth, Issue 137, 1 February 1908, Page 6

THEATRE ROYAL.

Fullers' Entertainers. Allan Shaw, the coin and card manipulator, ' stands but like a -Lusitania among, ocean liners at the Royal, where his mystic manoeuvres with dollars and dimes and his mar- i vellpus handling of cards have got audiences thinking a lot, and considering whether one should work and sweat, when by a few movements of the hands a blessed mint comes into existence. Anyhow, the police ought to look into the matter, and see if Shaw isn't a' human counterfeit coining plant. Another bright but boozy "* turn tickling the ribs of Fuller's patrons is that of Harry Salmon and Ida Chester, m "Matrimonial Differences." It's the same old difference, though, but it's irresistible on the' stage. "Joe Watts and Madge Lucas are still going strong, and contort well and dance scarecrow fashion m a wonderful manner and patter and sing and make merry till the audience are fit to "bust." The loleens' are back for a short season and sharp-shoot and wire-walk as only the loleens can. Tod Calloway, needless^ to observe, has a big budget of " comic ditties, and ,the droll manner m which lie reels them off greatly enhances his big reputation. Bob Lloyd is singing m a sausagemachine like fashion, and the rest of the company ought to get an injunction against the audience, because' they expect too much from Bob, who ousrht to give the little, shirt that mother gave Mm a wash and hang it out on the clothes line. The Lucas Sisters arc first favorites with ye gods, while Miss" Nellie Power's popularity seems eternal. Madame Blanche Carelli and Mr A. L. Cropp and the Biograph are -additional, turns of a bright and big programme, which, strengthened this evening by new faces and new items, should help to increase the Royal's popularity as a place of amusement, and induce Ben Fuller to join with Missioner Moore m prayer for the unrighteous and the silver-givers.