PRINCESS THEATRE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19205, 23 June 1924, Page 3

PRINCESS THEATRE.

WALLACE'S COMPLETE NEW SHOW,

Tho unfailing delight which the comedy methods of George Wallace bring to Fuller patrons will have special fervour to-night, when the favourite and volatile comedian will produce for the first time on .any stage a revue composed by himself, and entitled “Some Night.” For the past 10 days the theatre and several work rooms in Dunedin have been hives of industry in preparation for this production, and the preliminary expenses for costumes, scenery, and effects are said to have run to well over half a thousand pounds. The piece has been thoroughly rehearsed, and a splendid premiere is assured. For his motif to “Some Night” Mr Wallace has got away from hackneyed stories, and hit upon a genuinely comic idea, somethin"- lik" the situation exploited in “Vico Versa.” A party of celebrants, bored by a succession of rainv days closing the usual avenues of entertainment devise n. scheme to do some slumming. But Fate take s their protect a little further lhan they had For one of them handles n little Chinese lantern which has some of the properties ascribed to Aladdin’s lamp. Hey presto! the whole party are transformed into denizens of the city’s underworld. What happens to them in this new incarnation is sheer comedy, and the management claims that th° slum scenes and stunts will reveal Mr Wallace at his very brightest and best. The comedian has spiced his new show with many tuneful and clover songs and dances, and a most resplendent wardrobe has been prepared.

An impressive vaudeville programme precedes the revue. Tho star enntribution will he by Takeo and Komer Namha, the American artists, whicse remarkable and highly original ad fairly took patrons bv storm last week. The other contributors will bo George Edwards and Co. and Jack Martin.