SAVOY ENTERTAINMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22203, 5 March 1934, Page 5

SAVOY ENTERTAINMENT

>'A novel MterUiiunent is to be pre- '■ : wofced at .th*"S»TojE,:this,week,:;wn«it;lsfc£ Keith,; Desmond, a monologuist : .wH4fcJa' vide and high reputation, will present a entertainment; is iftjTreej>in#-Tntn the Savoy's variety. -Allocution' is too-' backrieyed ■'■ a,,' ' word to describe the workof "Mr.i-De«i '.-:.■!. i> haaTire'/ fcifta r >wb"ich;rAl.t^■'.'■"V earned for hint.:lengthy engagements* on. the J.; C. Williamson' and .other theatjff* m '■ Britain. More recently, he has-m'aaVip-pesraneca before the microphones in "the . leadlna:. Australian' broadcasting studios. Hit talent is shown-by the fact that he ha»:tonred' the TivoH Theatres on *p« ■'. occasions. - He-waa'aleo r ,Uncle in theVAut-1 :. tralian.pieture. " The. Sentimental Bloke' :'•" ■' -He;Sa"--np;,^ttiiUry^ * ,«ere;*chlturW«:e^nCTfeiOf:;chartctef/'/thfe< Adelaide Register wrote, describing Mr "• - ,; T^sWotfdT* : V'«»a' fluent and ■;pjwfeei'ydic-': 'a delight to; haters. >Tbe third > actfrjwii SftHall"GaineVcelebrat*4 "play, ? Th*j Christian/' dealing with a board ■ -■ bis, favourite- items., Ik ievthe' teat"' of an, artist's ability, to hold his audience, and only by sheer personality, absolute sincerity, and artistic perception, can tha performer pals, the test, n* wiii 'it(Mi^mialnp ■;|lan*T--'Kiiow, w '.-a.'4r%«ls(^-.>at^ t .oivßid., d* Janeiro, -Throughput the Desmond will also present numbers of a ':;;'>. Th« playa are always rich, bat-with gladioli ' and dahlias at their'best; in botb'.sije > and beautyiMiblo6iiitfib|.'aferoie- this week I admiration;; of all Nature lovers*