HIS MAJESTY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 20, 14 April 1927, Page 15

HIS MAJESTY’S

“NO, NO, NANETTE” The initial presentation in Auckland of the record-breaking musical comedy “No, No, Nanette” will take place on Saturday afternoon, beginning at 2 o’clock, and the first evening production will take place on Saturday night. A special holiday matinee will be staged on Easter Monday afternoon. To-day seats may be selected at Lewis R. Eady and Son, Ltd., and during the holidays the plans will be on view at His Majesty’s Theatre confectionery shop, where tickets for the stalls and early door gallery may also be purchased. The elemental qualities of “No, No, Nanette” are rhythm, which is the soul of music, and dances and colour, which is light in glad appeal. The music is melodious, well scored for the orchestra, and abounds in richly rhythmical figuration. No daintier, more pleasing or more talented musical comedy artist has ever appeared on the stage in New Zealand than Miss Elsie Prince and as Nanette she simply lives the part, which might have been specially written for this fascinating actress, so well does she lit into it. Mr. Jimmy Godden, Jimmy Smith and Mr. Charlton Morton as Billy Early aer equally hlppily placed. The one thick-set and most genial and the other tall and slight, they provide an amusing contrast in outlook as well as in appearance. Billy is as distressed at his wife’s extravagance as Jimmy is at his wife’s caution. Both comedians create much amusement the whole time they are on the stage. “No, No, Nanette” is packed with tuneful and fascinating musical numbers, among which probably the following are the most popular: “Tea For Two,” “I Want to be Happy,” “Take a Little One Step,” “The Call of the Sea,” “Too Many Rings Around Rosie,” “I’ve Confessed to the Breeze,” “No, No, Nanette,” “The Deep Blue Sea,” “Fight Over Me,” “You Can Dance With Any Girl.” "Hello, Telephone Girlie,” and “Pay Day Pauline.” There are many quaint and original dances carried out with adroitness and abandon by a team of brilliant and clever dancers,, including Miss Alma Mackie, who created a furore in Wellington in her big feature dance. Mr. Royston McDonnell, Miss Gladys Devereaux and the Misses Allison and Kathleen Fallow. Several of the dance ensembles are, it is said, wonderful in their maze of evolutions and the dresses of the principals, ballet and chorus ladies are on a most lavish scale. A full operatic orchestra and chorus are under the direction of Mr. Harry Jacobs.