A CHANCE FOR TALENT.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1573, 17 June 1920, Page 34

A CHANCE FOR TALENT.

Mr. Harald Bowden, manager for J. and N. Tait, has received a great many applications for membership to the special school of dancing the firm intends opening, with a view of placing chosen ones in their musical companies. If selected they will have the opportunity of appearing in the forthcoming tour of “Mother Hubbard,” which opens in Wellington next month. Mr. Bowden is well pleased with the local response, and says that the applicants so far show satisfactory talent for singing and dancing, and, moreover, have an attractive appearance. Miss Alice Parkes (sister of Lizette), whose art as ballet mistress has a wide Australian repute, arrives in Wellington on June 21, and will come up to Auckland to personally select the girls, who will eventually be sent to Wellington for “Mother Hubbard” pantomime. The nucleus of the chorus will, of course, be sent over from Australia, but as Mr. Bowden says, there must be talent in

New Zealand equally good, though up to the present it has not been exploited. In this latest move of Messrs. J. and N. Tait, who, by the way, intend sending over various musical comedy companies in the future, the girls of New Zealand are being offered a wonderful chance, and the manager has every confidence in Miss Parkes being able to give them that finishing touch which divides the professional from the amateur. “Mother Hubbard” was an immense success in Sydney and Melbourne, with Barry Lupino and Jack Cannot as principal comedians.