BRIGHTIE AND CARLYON.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1522, 26 June 1919, Page 32

BRIGHTIE AND CARLYON.

Vaudeville artists who can break away from the conventional strike a welcome note with audiences who hanker after something more than the accepted style of song-cum-dance duo.

Brightie and Carlyon—Brightie is Mrs. Carlyon—are in a class of their own for unusual methods. That is one reason for their success on the Fuller circuit, let alone the fact that they have unlimited resources as entertainers. Both are well-known on the Australian stage, the former as

a soubrette and her partner as one of the original Five Carlyons noted for their dancing. During their seven years’ absence from Australia Brightie and Carlyon have had a wide experience at Home, with long engagements at the different musichalls in London with their present acts. “In London you can do the same turn indefinitely—that is if the audience once like it,” says Miss Brightie. “But out here it is different. The audience demands frequent changes. And so one must keep alive to the requirements of the public.” But she affects one style of dressing, and that never changes—the full bloomer skirt which allows plenty of freedom for dancing, and, moved-, er, gives just that soupcon of piquancy which is such a part of Brightie. With Bland Holt for many years—she used to be known as the child actress —she learnt everything to fit herself for a theatrical career under him —dancing, singing, deportment, etc. —and the training has - stood her in good stead foi' the variety of parts she has played at one time and another in pantomime, musical comedy, drama and vaudeville. Mr. Carlyon, quietly effective, parries his partner’s wit with sure touches and demonstrates his expertness as a disciple of terpsichore. Together they both tread the joyous measure of the dance with adroit skill and originality.