OPERA HOUSE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1159, 27 June 1912, Page 16

OPERA HOUSE.

Old and new artists are making vaudeville go with a swing at the Opera House, and its popularity is undoubtedly on the increase. Messrs Fuller see to it that the programmers well flavoured with top-notchers, and the result speaks for itself. Newcomers include Roya and Rejan, two prodigies in step dancing and terpsichorean ■ novelties, whose turn is doubly encored. Jack Bonny is another performer of outstanding merit

who specialises in comedy, and makes things merry for a tew minutes. Miss Flo D’ Orville sings character songs with taste and feeling and makes good at once with her admirers. Miss Beaumont Collins and her clever company (Messrs D. Baird, J. R. Spurling and A. Scarlett) are seen to capital effect in a sensational dramatic sketch entitled “The House of Terror.” Whatever role Miss Collins takes, she handles it with knowledge and artistry, being as versatile as she is talented. Wong Toy Sun in his Eastern setting again mystifies all with his sleight of hand tricks and magic arts, while tbe “King’s College Boys” are winning golden laurels by their delightful singing. That graceful trio of athletes, Hanley, Marguerite, and Hanley, are again to the forefront and earn reams of applause. Maurice Chenoweth, Misses Mamie Ellis, Peggy Roma and Beryl Nicholls have new songs which meet with general approval, and the singers have to pay the penalty in numerous encores. Altogether it is a programme warranted to please.