PRINCESS THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18515, 28 March 1922, Page 7

PRINCESS THEATRE

The new programme at the Princess Theatre this week will find favour with Eatrona, judging by the way it was received i«t evening. It includes quite a number of new turns, while retaining some of the best of the previous week’s fare. The Roger 'Frio gave the programme a promising start With a bright and clever exhibition of acrobatic feats, which embraced some novel and breath-taking features. Two well-favoured young ladies and a male whose physical proportions did not prepare the audience for the feats of strength the act involved composed the trio. The three gymnasts made easy work of difficult somersaulting, and their team work was performed without a hitch. The male athlete thought nothing of supporting the generous weight of his two confreres, and the way in which they climbed to perilous positions, maintained them, and gained terra firma without mishap was calculated to provoke thrills. Their finale, in which one lady stood on the man’s shoulders, the second one in turn mounting number two’s shoulders, and the three then tumbling forward and landing gracefully, was very effective. With a revolving ladder and a trapeze, the Darwinians, an amusing “ape” and a nicely-proportioned girl, presented a fine spectacular turn. At apposite ends of tho long ladder, balanced horizontally, they performed all sorts of clever feats, and lha climax of their entertaining act found each merrily performing an ultra-grand circle, the “ape” on the trapeze and the lady on the end of the ladder. A juggler of parts, Beaver, made his first appearance in Dunedin. His act, necessarily brief owing to his having just stepped off the express train from tho north, showed him to be a conjurer with billiard balls and cue, hats, cigars, and other nnconsidered trifles. Throughout his performance he chats familiarly with his audience, treating them to many quaint little sidelights upon his career and his profession. His act, when expanded tonight, nromiscs something good. Like Beaver, Pagdmi un ( | Stanley were on the stage within half an hour of leaving Iho train. These plump purveyors of boisterous mirth made an obviously welcome reappearance, rollicking through a breezy _ offering which kept everybody happy. I heir act will also develop acceptably. The nimble James Teddy held the closest attention while he displayed his extraordinary agility and dexterity. His ant includes leaps over six chairs, hnrdlee of varying heights, a full-sized piano and other obstacles, anti his judgment it. so neat that he rarely failed to kindle with a touch of his foot the match which hir. dainty colleague placed for him in difficult and apparently inaccessible places. That very droll little comedian lubby Stevens made another nit with his song 1 sketches, his nautical burlesque* being particularly diverting. Tho audience farewedled him with evident, reluctance. Tho lively coloured pair, Rastus and Banks, maintained a hurricane pace in their amusing melange of song, story, and dance, and found tome difficulty in escaping from an appreciative audience. Tho Honolulu four, who do everything with such grace, charmed the audience with their quaintly sweet music and their alluring Hawaiian dance and it was abundantly n’ in that they had by no means outstayed ition welcome. Ihe Kennedy Bros, were again seen in attractive eccentric dancing. Altogether it was a satisfying programme, enhanced M utual by the work of Mr Stokes and his orchestra Added to the bill this evening are a famous English pair of entertainers, Elsie Videan and Jack Kirby, whose reputation is that of “stars.” Their act is a combination of low comedy and high-class dancing, and of tho best calibre.