CHUNG LING SOO.

Observer, Volume XXIX, Issue 41, 26 June 1909, Page 9

CHUNG LING SOO.

Mr Harry Rickards' Vaudeville (Compa.%, headed, by the famous conjuror Chung Ling Soo, will begin a season at His Majesty's Theatre on Monday evening next. Many eulogistic reports have been received in Auckland, of Chung Ling Soo's extraordinary success in Australia and more recently in Southern centres of New Zealandj so heavy booking at "Wildman's is no surprise and seems to foretell a record season. Chung's work is said to be altogether inystirying and "in many respects unique, and wherever he has gone his entertainment has appealed to all classes of theatre-goers. In addition to this clever performance, a number of artists holding leading positions in the vaudeville world are announced to anpear. Included in the company are the Two Bells, a duo of English vocalists and dancers ; the "Wheelers, trick comedy cyclists ; Stewart and Lorraine, musical speciality artists ; Ted Kalman, a young English character comedian ; and Madam© Camille Cornwall, operatic soprano ; the Australian Dartos, and Australia's Little Tich.

Careful housewives will note with interest that Missj Margaret Lovell, L.C.A., gold medallist of the National School of Cookery, London, will give a series of demonstrations of cookery by means of gas at the Federal Hall, Wellesley-street, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. A dramatic recital by the elocutionary pupils of Mrs Forsyth, the well - known teacher, will be given at St. Andrew's Hall, Symonds-street, _on Tuesday evening, 29th inst. Besides recitals from the works of Auckland authors, there will be an original trial scene, the case of " Covey v. Toosweet, M.H.R.," written by Mr H. B. Bridge, of Wellington, and performed by twenty ladies. This is just the class of humorous production in which Mrs Forsyth, under her maiden name, as Miss " Lun " Watson, won wide celebrity in the South before she came to Auckland to settle.