PRINCESS THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18467, 31 January 1922, Page 7

PRINCESS THEATRE

Vaudeville pattens should bo well satisfied with the entertainment provided for-1 them at the Princess Theatre this wecfc -c-Thero are three entirely new acts on .-Hie ‘ bill, and ■ each \of them possesses some- .feature that marks it out. from, the usual oWs 'of variety, turns. First; once children, an* titled to preference, are Toots and Tootles, two little ■ kiddieswhose marked ability in an inteipokted scene in the recent season of drama drew the attention of the manager hud resulted in an engagement in vaudtmfle. Their feature was song and -dancing; in which they showed- remarkable aptitude. Finishing with the whirl round iaGSWr-paost approved fashion, the boy carried hiS'jdSrtner off the stage on his shoulder; followed„,hy prolonged applause. The little lady- who was thus earned away is a natural actress, and with an experienced teacher will go far and attain no mean success. Eyes,‘-face, body, arms—fell were expressive, and there is a surprising finish about her work for on© so young. The feature of the' next new act makes a very different appeal to the Hie lady, Remona, -, begins with a straight-out illustration of inverted caiigraphy, which ,is not another new diabase, but merely the rather difficult art Ofteriting upside down. She proceeded with'jo., very much harder tea*; to perform five processes with her mind concurrently. Bcmona’Claims on the authority of on American psychologist' that -she is the first woman in 'tee- -world to-perform the-feat, On one board' was written a: question, on another the‘word “next,” and. below it were seven figures, giving a milUon as the unit. What Jjtemonft wad to do was to write down backwards the question, letter by letter alternating each letter of it with the letters ‘of' the answer, which included the word At the end of every line she would’ write on a second board a line of figures,’ and all the time she kept up an accompaniment of clever chatter on quite another subject. The figures when added up gave the.origxnai total. t The act is novel, and therefore interesting. The third newcomer wnsilfflora Cromer, an English comedienne, whose’’first song—a song with a stutter in rit—fairly brought down the house; Her next was a playful libel on English character, in which she ' was a raw housemaid from a certain, house with a reputation in the. Strand, looking for an Australian god who owned a prickly pear farm. In these and in-her last, song—a startling conception of how the Jewess’s lament (‘‘Abe ; My Boy”)'BhouId bo sung—Miss Cromer was the unrestrained comedienne, and her lively carried her here, as elsewhere, to success." In. very different mood she gave a- imteieat monologue, “The Four Ages of Man,’-' which is n£w, and contains a piece of trueefentimont. -Miss Cromer had the house at.’-facr feet, clamouring for another songr-whicb. one might suggest, she should gnrb' next time instead of a - speech. Several of last week’s favourites reappeared in Downturns. Boron and ‘‘Nobbier” produced a viholo series of fresh jokes ; Hal juggled andSalked nonsense, and fooled the audience } neatly;, and Walter M‘Kay had feet tapping tohaunting strains of a Hawaiian -»%uitar. Lawrence and Crane contributed <sdags at the piano, the .. Shews featured ■ ■a"'! lively parody of “Excelsior. ” and Adna and Paul made love in' the limelight. Miller ('and Rainey and Weir and Poole supplied the knook-about comedy element, theglatter being appropriately billed “m-.’.some absurdities.”