VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 24 April 1913, Page 20

VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS.

THE BRENNAN-FULLER CIRCUIT.

ALWAYS ON THE LOOK-OUT. “There’s a good time ahead for vaudeville lovers” said Mr. D’Arcy Perry (the energetic young manager for Messrs. Fuller in Auckland), to a “Review” representative on Monday. “Attractions and novelties will follow closely on each other for some months to come, and if variety, as they say, is the spice of life, the public will have no chance of stagnation as far as their vaudeville palates are concerned.” “Here is a bulletin, just issued in Sydney by Mr. Ben Fuller, managing director of the Brennan-Fuller circuit, which gives some interesting particulars of acts engaged and already appea - ng on the circuit, and which will be seen in New Zealand in due course.” Schepp’s Animal Circus comes direct from America, where it is engaged showing as an attraction in. itself. The circus consists of dogs, cats, ,monkeys, and ponies, and has proved a house filler in the leading Commonwealth cities. Van Camp’s educated pigs are another star attraction from America. They waltz, wrestle, jump hurdles,, kneel, shake hands, fetch and carry, and perform various other evolutions. Marvelle’s cockatoos, twenty in number, are making their first appearance, and come direct from Europe.

Mysterious Mik, the mind-reading dog, is a beautiful little black Pommeranian, who does sums in arithmetic without seeing the figures, and also correctly describes any article held by a member of- the audience and touched by his trainer. He can also, give correctly the number or date on any bank note or ticket. Fritz Von Liston is an operatic siffieur and mimic who appears in Duu costume.

Marie Esmeralda, the famous European xylophoniste, has created quite a furore in Australia. Miss Esmeralda features operatic overtures on the much-abused xylophone, one of her biggest hits being with the difficult “Semiramide.” Hugh Lloyd, the “king of the cor deelastique,” who was on the Fuller cii cuit some years ago, and has sincebeen in America, is once again in Australia. The Royal Banzai family of Japanese equilibrists, who carry a stage setting valued at some thousands of pounds, are at present in Adelaide. Tne Mangeans, an American troupe of acrobats, and the Decars, and Tomato, Continental pantomimists, are also on the circuit. But perhaps the greatest attraction of all, and one sure to be appreciated by lovers of refined vaudeville in New Zealand, is Spencer Kelly and Marion Wilder, soprano and baritone respectively. Mr. Kelly and MissWilder are well and favourably known on the operatic stage in America (Mr. Kelly has played leading roles in ah parts of the world), and . their pre—