LONG TACK SAM.

Wairarapa Age, 28 May 1936, Page 2

LONG TACK SAM.

REGENT THEATRE TO-MORROW NIGHT. Described as the world’s greatest entertainer, Long Tack Sam, with his troupe of twenty Oriental wonders and seven English and Continental vaudeville specialties will appear at the Regent Theatre to-morrow night starting at 8.30 o’clock. Audiences the world over have been fascinated by the clever, lively preformances. The men are highly trained acrobats, balancers, and trick contortionists. They are exceptionally well made stubby little fellows with marvellously flexible limbs and bodies, and their work generally is characterised by high speed and finish. Prominent in the maze of items, which go on and off with lightninglike rapidity was the exceptionally versatile work of Miss Nee Sa Long, who, besides being a gifted vocalist, excels in instrumental work and dancing. An ensemble in which male members of the troupe go through their gyrations on a horizontal bar, and at the same time another member of the company thrills the audience. The Sydney Sunday “Sun” says: “A wonderfully well-built Oriental, suspended by a strap from the ceiling, was beautiful to watch; the man who did it seemed at times to be nothing human —just a wriggling mass at the end of a strap. There were few in the theatre who did not start at the deftly cheeked tumblers, which were followed by round after round of applause. The rapidity with which the ‘ stunts ’ are put through is not the least amazing part of the entertainment. Long Tack Sam as the humorist of the party, burlesqued all nationalities —French, English, Australian, Scotch and German alike. ’ ’ The box plans are filling rapidly at W. G. Perry’s.