FOOTLIGHT FLASHES,

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18809, 3 December 1932, Page 17 (Supplement)

FOOTLIGHT FLASHES,

Chefalo and his Midgets will tour New Zealand next year. * * * • Tiki Carpenter and Charles Holt (at one time members of the Australian Smart Set Diggers) are doing well in vaudeville In England. * * * * Jim Gerald, whose revue company Is in \delaide, took up a collection recently on behalf of the Largs Bay Orphanage, and raised over £OO. « * 0 * Isobel Wilford, Lhe New Zealand actress, is appearing successfully in England in A. A. Milne’s comedy, “ The Dover Road.’ 0 * * * Carter the Great, the well-known Illusionist, has postponed his contemplated tour of Australia and New Zealand. * 0 0 * Wlrths’ Circus is just closing another successful season in Melbourne. The outstanding attraction is “The Man They Cannot Hang,’’ who drops many feet with a noose round his neck. t * * * Edna Best and Herbert Marshall,

who won many admirers by their work in the charming Aim ‘‘Michael and Mary,” are now back on the London stage, appearing in a new American comedy, “Another Language." “ Dorothy," Collier's tuneful opera, will be staged by the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company at Melbourne tonight. It will run for a fortnight, and tho compnay will then go to Sydney for the Christmas season. * * * * Cedric Hardwickc, who appeared as tho clergyman-burglar in Bernard Shaw’s latest play, “Too True to Be Good," will lake the role of a man blinded in the war in W. Somerset Maugham’s new play, “For Services Rendered." ‘ * * • • "Ilcrmio” Ward, a comedian formerly popular on (lie Fuller circuit, heads a revue company at the Bijou Theatre, Melbourne. * * * * A. A. Milne’s new comedy, “ Other People's Lives,’’ was produced at the Arts Theatre, London, on November (1. In this play Mr Milne, is in a serious mood, and lie shows how a number o’’ "bright young things" affect the lives of a poor family.