PRINCESS THEATRE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17375, 24 July 1918, Page 8

PRINCESS THEATRE.

Despite the cold weather there were not many vacant seats at the Princess Theatre last night. 'Tun at the Smithy," tho new piece, presented by Mr Walter George's Sunshine Players, provided a wealth of hilarious amusement, and the musical numbers, which wuxo all enjoyable, pave the audience a chance to bteome cairn again between the laughs. As Daft Dick, the blacksmith's apprentice, Mr George had a part from wh.ch he extracted great fun, without milking tho role ridiculous, ond Miss Gcorgie Martin, as a village maiden, acted in a sprightly and captivating manner and sang her solos nicely. The audience derived a lot of merriment from the motor car break-down, in which Mr George Storey adopted many diverting nuthods "to fix up his machine—all to no purpose. Among the vaudeville artists, Bryant and Bryant brought on a turn that was greatly appreciated ; Napier and Yvonne, the former a clever contortionist and the latter a graceful dancer, were applauded to the echo; Cremer and Arnold, in a lively comeoy sketch, caused no end of laughter with 'he ludicrous situations they created ; and Bonny and Freeman were responsible for an entertaining item, in which tho dancing was a pleasant feature. Tho programme will bo repeated to-night.