SCHISTL’S WONDERETTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 538, 15 December 1928, Page 15

SCHISTL’S WONDERETTES

AT NEW REGENT ON TUESDAY Schistl’s W’onderettes, the amazing , performance of little folk invented by j an ingenious Swiss, and which has I been all the rage in London, and more j recently in Australia, will make their j first appearance at the New Regent j Theatre next Tuesday evening. The Wellington "Dominion” said concerning Schistl’s Wonderettes: “Alice in Wonderland never saw anything more surprising than Schistl can produce with his 350 fantastic little folk. Such amazing things happened last night that the audience were kept gasping, and one would not have been the least surprised if the theatre had turned into Aladdin’s Cave or King Solomon’s Mines. "In a regal setting, the Wonderettes pranced on to the stage, dancing in j the most fantastic fashion. A York- « shire farmer, in a loud check suit, was j suddenly transformed into a crinolined j lady of the Victorian period, who made I frantic efforts to keep a dog, which I appeared from nowhere, at bay. Huge dragons, vomiting forth fire and evil spirits, frightened the very wits out of Santa Claus. A dainty milkmaid tripped on to the stage, but just as everyone was admiring lier rosy cheeks—hey, presto! a flock of chickens and a rustic love leaped from her milk-pails. . “A sedan chair came sedately on to the stage, but before one’s very eyes the bearers developed into huge giants, and deserted their fair charge. But the lady was entirely self-reliant. After roundly upbraiding her recreant bearers, in the twinkling of an eye she converted the sedan chair into a modern Rolls Royce motor-car, and sailed off the stage under her own power. It was simply black magic when a carriage suddenly became transformed into an airplane, which, after gracefully circling the stage three times, volplaned away into the Never Never Land. “Perhaps the crowning act of all was when a huge rooster appeared, and, after crowing defiantly, laid a huge egg, out of which suddenly popped a very live pig, which gambolled about with frolicspme glee. One amazing turn succeeded another until there was nothing left to wonder at. “It is not at all surprising that His Majesty King George commanded the Wonderettes to appear before him no fewer than five times at Buckingham Palace, or that this amazing entertainment enjoyed such a long and popular run at the Palace Theatre, London. “Nothing like it has ever been seen in this country.”