HERE AND THERE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1574, 24 June 1920, Page 3

HERE AND THERE.

Thirteen years ago Victor Gouriet broke a tendon in his ankle while dancing in Adelaide. A clever surgeon grafted a wallaby's tendon in this place, with the result that he recovered the use of his foot again, and can now dance better than he ever could. The little comedian made his re-appearance in Australia, after ten years absence, at the Tivoli, Sydney, in “Bran Pie.”

You’ve not seen “Charlie” at his best till you see “Sunnyside,” his latest side splitter. In it he will teach the whole world to be happy though hired. He is just the jazzy limit, though in his life there is very little jazz. Morning: breakfast, work, and kicks; noon: more work, mistakes, and kicks; night, romance, sweet thoughts, and kicks. That’s Charlie’s day — a round of tiresome toil and disastrous day dreams.

One more Australian singer seems destined to charm the world. Miss Florence Fawaz, who was trained in Melbourne, has sung in the New York Metropolitan Opera House, and the experts declared that: “her voice is one of the best of its kind in the world —a sensational voice, which requires no further training, except in style.” It gave them great surprise to hear that her training had been done in Australia.

“England has at last discovered a great tragedienne,” states Mr. Louis McQuilland, in the “Daily Express.” “Miss Sybil Thorndike, who has taken London by storm in ‘The Medea of Euripedes,’ as translated by Professor Gilbert Murray, is in the direct line of queens of the tragic stage. She is comparable with the greatest of them. Henceforth she takes rank with Rachel, with Genevieve Ward, with Bernhardt, with Duse —with all the sceptred race and the forms divine of the high enchantresses of the theatre. She has temperament in excelsis; she has a magnificent elocutionary gift, which enables her to tear a passion to tatters without strain to a glorious voice; she has a countenance so mobile that it can mirror the feelings of all' humanity; she has a beautiful presence, and her every gesture is a thing of grace. Finally and emphatically, Miss Thorndike has genius. Generations hence playgoers will talk of her as the greatest actress of the Georgian era.”