THE MARCUS SHOW

Southland Times, Issue 23229, 18 June 1937, Page 4

THE MARCUS SHOW

ANOTHER BRILLIANT SUCCESS NEW PROGRAMME TONIGHT The reputation that preceded the Marcus Show to Invercargill was further enhanced last night, the company again being brilliantly successful with its second and final presentation of “La Vie Paree.” The Civic Theatre was filled with a warmly appreciative audience. A lively tempo was set in the opening number and it was maintained throughout three hours of sparkling entertainment, turn following turn with astonishing rapidity. Tonight the company will present its second programme, “Broadway Vanities,’ in which there will be entirely different numbers and new scenery, but the same celerity and snappiness.. Although the new revue is a complete change, it has all the features which proved so popular in the first production. There is the same daring but riotously funny comedy, ballets and settings of spectacular brilliance and vivid colour, the same lovely girls in a different but equally fascinating series of frocks (if frocks is the term), and the same clever specialty artists presenting a variation of their previous performances. Dorothy Oliver, the dramatic soprano who made her first appearance in New Zealand at Christchurch, is a real acquisition to the company. The comedy, the dancing and the spectacular ensembles will again be the real strength of the production. Ben McAtee carries the burden of most of the comedy, and the sparkle and spontaneity of his “wisecracks’’ have a flavour and a sauciness that add to the intrinsic value of their wit. McAtee. is a comedian with a breezy personality that makes an immediate appeal.. He is supported in his role of chief jester by a clever band of assistants in Bob Dyer, Dorothy Coudy, Georgine Millar, Ha Cha San, Lee Mason, Sparky Kaye, Lillian McCoy and Harold Boyd. The dancing is apparently inexhaustible in its variety. Leon Miller, of the nimble feet, the sinuous Sharon de Vries, the Dancing Bemays, Sylvia Lee and Al Ricker will look after this department of the show with an efficiency seldom equalled in the experience of Invercargill theatre-goers. The spectacular effects are achieved by the cunning employment of almost every known artifice of the theatre.