The Show's The Thing

NZ Truth, Issue 1204, 27 December 1928, Page 14

The Show's The Thing

IRENE VANBRUGH and hubby Dion * Boucicauit will toe saying ta-ta to New Zealand during their foitacoming tour.- "The show's the thing"- so far as these fine players are concerned. * « * PLEM. DAWE, with the Midnight Frolics, doesn't omit even one of the first principles of slap -stick from his turn, yet the laughs at best are anaemic. The troubLe probably lies m the fact that revived old gags ,are like re-hashed meat — most of the flavor missing. * *■ *; CULLERS' comedians, Frank O'Briun, r Christchurch Opera Houfee, and Syd; Beck, His Majesty's, Wellington, get the laughs and draw the business. What more cari be expected of them? CATS an enigmatic critic, discussing Billie Dove's work m "The Night Watch"; "Miss Dove, beautifully gowned as usual, is ideally suited to the role .of 1 misunderstood wife." • Possibly that is intended as a compliment. Anyhow, our last' screen-, meeting with Billie, she was beautifully pyjamaed (an exception, perhaps) and looking., after somebody's misunderstood husband. Very well she did it. A. personable lady, Billies work is always cleverly put through. , . ■•#.-■.#. * PiREGORY tVANOFF with the Frolics. V Digital dexterity on the violin. ■*•■■■'*■■. ■* ■ .- ■ ■■ PUS. BLUETT still 'maintains his boyish slimrifess. The same cannot be said of his dad, Fred, whose embonpoint these days is a thing to marvel at. * .# # . AMY ROCHELLE has joined the Jfm ** Gerald Company. Phyllis dv Barry, Essie Jennings, Reg. Hawthorne, Lance Vane,' Bertini's Tabloid Band; Una Barnes and Billy Heaton are there, too, to keep her company.

DUNNING an eye over some filmy fashions, one notices that Clai-a Bow has indulged m a Nile green jumper — and apparently doesn't believe m the bad luck attached to peacock feathers, for there's a very gorgeous one appliqued on the front of the jumper. That bad luck legend, by the way, is supposed to have- originated m the fact that peacocks were the pets of the jealous goddess, Juno — and woe betide the enterprising person who made off with Juno's peacock, or anything else that was hers. ■m « a I/IDDIES' panto's m Auckland and **■ Wellington at the festive season should provide plenty of nu-lm's. The Dame's skirts are as numerous (?) as usual. # * * "TJNCLE TOM'S CABIN," popular as a melodrama v quarter of a century ago, has been filmed by Universal and is ». New Year attraction at the De Luxe, Wellington. * * * HAVE. MEREDITH'S band— one time v at the Adelphi Cabaret, Wellington, is now playing under the Fuller banner m Sydney. . , •