STAGELAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 24

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FIXTURES HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE July 5-19.—“ Love Lies’’ and "So This is Love,” Clem Dane, Rita McLean. Coming—Leon Gordon: :“Murder on the Second Floor” and other plays. William Faversham: “The Prince and the Pauper” and other plays. CONCERT CHAMBER July 2,3, 4 and s.—Little Theatre Society. Marie Burke has left London for Hollywood, there to crash—or cash—in on the talkies. * * * Alma Mackay, acrobatic dancer who has toured New Zealand on several occasions, is touring England in ‘Paris Nights,” a light revue show. Noel Coward is back in London after a tour of America and the East. He has completed one new play and is writing several others. Violet Elliot, -a comedienne who has played in vaudeville iu most towns of Australia and New Zealand, is now in London with prospects of some good engagements ahead.

Sir John Martin-Harvey has arranged with Bernard Shaw to appear iu a revival of “The Devil’s Disciple” at the opening of his London season in the early autumn. He had been waiting for a long time for the opportunity to play Dick Dudgeon, a part, by the way, that might have been written for him. * * & The following appeared before the King and Queen at the recent ‘command performance of variety artists in London:—The Sixteen Glazeroffs, a company of Russian singers and dancers; Tom Payne and Vera Hilliard, a pair of comedy artists; George Clarke, the dude comedian, in a sketch called “His First Car”; Julian Rose, the Hebrew comedian; De Groot, the violinist, in a musical interlude with David Bor and Reginald Kilbey; Coram, in his well-known ventriloquial act with “Jerry”; Odali Careno, the vocalist; Toto, a clown; Will Hay, the schoolmaster comedian, in his sketch entitled “Entomology”; Gaston Palmer, the comedy juggler; and Jack Payne and his 8.8. C. Baud; a dance specialty, in which Nervo and Knox, Chilton and Thomas, the Stone-Ver-non Four, Max Wall and the Palladium Girls took part.