LONG TACK SAM.

Wairarapa Age, 20 May 1936, Page 2

LONG TACK SAM.

REGENT THEATRE ON MAY 29,

Long Tack Sam and his vaudeville company will give one performance only at the Regent Theatre on the evening of Friday, May 29. Since his last, appearance here some years ago, Long Tack Sam, with his troupe of twenty Oriental artists, has completed a world trip-, including Europe, Africa, Malaya, Canada, America and the Far East, visiting all capitals and provincial cities, and the cities in Australia. Apart from the artistry of the production, the rapidity with which one act follows another has a general appeal, and all through the Chinese half of the programme that inimitable master of ceremonies, Long Tack Sam, keeps up a running fire of witticisms which has the audience in a constant simmer of merriment. His assistants meanwhile are going through their routine of hand-balancing, tumbling, plate spinning, horizontal bar work and balancing on bamboo poles, with Miss Nee Sa Long playing her Violin while going through a series of contortions. The first half of the programme is taken up by European Vaudeville Specialties. Personally selected by Long Tack Sam to support his Oriental Troupe, they are headed by the Four La Salle’s, who at the conclusion of their act “loop the loop” on skates. They are from the La Scala Theatre, Berlin. They include Jandy, the French Musical Clown, who intersperses Artistry with buffoonery; Mascotte and Maurice, delightful ballroom darners from the Folies Bergere; Dora Lindsay, Scottish comedienne from the Alhambra, Glasgow; Paul and Leon, tap dancers that are different—they hail from the Colosseum, London—and Astor? The

management purposely refrain from commenting on this artist as it would spoil the real surprise. Suffice to say, “What a voice and what a surprise.”