“RADIO PARADE.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 956, 28 December 1933, Page 3

“RADIO PARADE.”

Celebrity Vaudeville at Its Brightest.

Radio Parade ”, which heads the attractive programme at the Plaza Theatre this week, can aptly be described as glorious entertainment. It consists of a series of crisp acts by artists who have achieved fame on the stage, the screen or before the radio microphone The picture has no theme and no padding, but gives the purest delight, and the greatest regret of the audience is that there can be no encores. The artists are introduced by Christopher ivtone, the most lovable personality of the British Broadcasting Corporation, who makes a wonderful host. Gus M’Xaughton and Claude Hulbert, who have already become exceedingly popu*ar with motion picture audiences, provide a great deal of the fun as inquisitive onlookers, and their inimitable conduct provokes roars of laughter. Among those who appear is Elsie Carlisle, who sings pathetic songs so simply and effectively that it is easy to understand why she is one of the most famous music hall artists in London. And so the programme goes on: each new turn provides a fresh sensation of delight, and Roy Eox and his famous dance band supply a happy musical accompaniment. “ Radio Parade ” is not only something new in film entertainment, it is superlative vaudeville which owes its success to the fact that the producer has wisely refrained from dressing it up as a musical farce. Pride of place on an ideal supporting programme driven to “Three Little Pigs”, a Walt Disney Sillv Symphony in