DUCHESS THEATRE
“THE GANG SHOW” A refreshing novel production adapted from the annual Scouts “Gang Show," starring Ralph Reader, and Gina Malo, comes to the Duchess Theatre for to-day and to-morrow. The leader of a local Scout troop, tires of his humble clerking job, his ambitions soaring in the direction of the Theatre. Rebuffed by the usual agents he decides to utilise his showmanship by putting on a Boy Scout show to secure funds for a clubroom. Thrown out of the theatre where they are rehearsing the amateur performers find themselves with a show and nowhere to stage it. Rescue is at
hand when a girl left in charge of a new playhouse while her impressario boss hits the high spots in Paris, Is let down hy a defaulting opera company. Taking a chance she allows the boys to present their show In the house with the result that it becomes a terrific hit. For sheer spontaneity “The Gang Show" would be hard to beat, and the lads enter with gusto into the proceeding, putting over song, dance and comedy interludes with the skill of veteran entertainers.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 56, 8 March 1939, Page 9
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187DUCHESS THEATRE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 56, 8 March 1939, Page 9
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