“BRIGHT SIDE UP.”

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19053, 18 September 1933, Page 5

“BRIGHT SIDE UP.”

SPECTACULAR PRODUCTION. The show girls In “Bright Side Up, Ernest C. Rolls’ big spectacular musical production to be staged here under the direction of J. C. AVilliamson Ltd., were selected from over 1000 Inspected by Mr Rolls in Sydney and Melbourne. Their appearance created something like a sensation when they made their debut in Australia in “Bright Side Up," and they have proved quite a feature of this production wherever it has been staged. The ballet is composed of specially selected young girls from the principal ’Australian dancing schools and their work Is an outstanding feature in “Bright Side Up,” which will be presented by J. C. Williamson Ltd. at the Theatre Royal, Hamilton, on Wednesday afternoon and evening. Aiiss Riano makes her . dressingroom in the theatre a place of beauty and charming resort. “I usually carry around cushions, hangings, and things tc make our dressing-room comfortable," she says. “We spend so much time in it.” Then, laughing, she explains: “I almost carry my home round like the snail. AA’e travel everywhere bv motor car, which I drive myself, and we take with us cushions, a bed, all sorts of properties, hooks and baggage, and an ice-chest on the side. Wait, I’ll show you my hooks,” and flings open the doors of a cupboard which extends right across the end of the room and shows rows of closely-packed hooks. “You should see our luggage—lo trunks. I have kept myself poor lmying hooks,’’ is one of her assertions, and the hooks she buys deal | with serious and weighty subjects, for I there arc very few novels she can | waste her lime with. Aiiss Riano is ia most interesting personality, and ! the brightest and most entertaining l of companions. Although American. I she was horn in London. “My parents ; happened to he over there at (he time lon a visit, therefore, I was horn ■ there," she airily explains. Her great hook of press-cullings proves she. has a world-wide reputation, fur she has appeared all over the English-speak-ing world.