“O-KAY FOR SOUND”

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 17 (Supplement)

“O-KAY FOR SOUND”

SMART REVUE IN SYDNEY A TONIC FOR THE TIMES “ Okay For Sound,” produced at the Theatre Royal on Saturday, is a tonic for the times—a quick-step revue, says a Sydney paper. Hard-working comedians, ballerinas and whirling Arab acrobats throw themselves headlong into an exhilarating medley of 20 “ shots.” Taking more than its cue from the movies, the show is a crazy studio where everybody is in the film or trying for it. And so the good things of the theatre are concentrated here and the tiresome are dropped. Seldom do so many genuine comedians crowd into one show 7 —Nat Mills and Bobbie, Connor and Drake, Gale and Carson. There is much hilarious burlesque. You see Don Juan, gone Ballet Russe with a harem (yet'to Mozart’s music), and this immediately parodied in the wildest knockabout. None of the' absurd elements of grand opera is missed in “ Professor Tony Polom’s Uproar.” 44 The Honour of the Flag ’’ is like the north-west frontier hill fort of “Bengal Lancer” seen through the wrong end of the telescope. Plenty of Variety For variety, there are Nirska the butterfly dancer, the Denmati bounding Arabs, skaters in old Vienna, miniature ponies, the dancers Wyn and Hurwyn. Mingling with all these are “ epics ” of Drake and Nelson, with the Victory's chaplain offering prayer before the battle to Handel’s Largo. The whole is as illogical as the ingredients of a cocktail, hut, taken fast, produces the' same pleasurable confusion.