AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18792, 30 May 1923, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

i I HARRY LAUDER. > TO-NIGHT. TO-NIGHT. I The Sunday Times, Sydney, says: “Sir Harry Lauder, appearing under the direction of J. and N. Tait by arrangement with E. J. Carroli, caused the Palace Theatre, to be packed last night wi.th an enthusiastic audience. Age does not wither nor custom stale the rich and ripe | humour of this great comedian—the only man in the modern world who I has been knighted while still skipI ping round the stage with bare legs ; and a crooked stick.” Harry Lau- . der is on a farewell tour of New j Zealand and appears here to-night for this night only, supported by a (vaudeville company of stars. Lauder I will no doubt sing some of the old favourites, but the opening pro- ; gramme will include the following new ones: —“Ohio,” “Doughie, the Baker,” "Somebody Walting for Me,” I “Roaming in the Gloaming,” "When 1 Was Twenty-one,” “New Zealand Girls are Good Enough For Me,” etc. The company supporting Harry Lauder includes Phyllis and Giles, in comedy absurdities; La Venture, in a beautiful luminous fantasy; Stan Kavanagh, the juggling humorist; Queenie Fenton, soprano; Daphne Ferguson. Scottish dancer; and Tom Payne and Vera Hilliard, in burlesque episodes. Harry Lauder is the recognised head of the comedy world of vaudeville, and the i hour he spends with his audience is j just one long spell of laughter—as Lauder says “a good laugh does one a. power o’ good.” The box plans are rapidly filling at H. I. Jones and Son’s.