OPERA HOUSE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1576, 8 July 1920, Page 34

OPERA HOUSE.

Vaudeville is having a merry run at the Opera House, a well-chosen programme meeting with popular approval. Kitchie and Kliftie head the newcomers in a knockabout comedy act which provokes continuous laughter, antics on stilts being part of their stock-in-trade. Mr. Joe Teague is another fresh arrival to make a good impression. His specialty is a double voice. Opening in a pleasing baritone, he gives everyone a surprise when he changes into bell-toned notes of soprano value. Those natty favourites. Tilton and West, are back in vaudeville, and hold their own in harmony and jest. Miss Maggie Buckley, who was last here in revue, is just as bright a factor in vaudeville, her songs of the ragtime flavour going , with great, zest.; The hold-overs from last week are all worthy of special notice and easily justify an extended stay. Newlyn and Guest again hold supremacy with their original potpourri of oddments, showing how fooling can be reduced to a fine art. Miss Newlyn makes a specialty of attractive dressing, which further enhances the act in the eyes of the audience. After an interlude of clever repartee, the artists conclude with an exhibition of eccentric stepping that takes the house by storm. Mr. Louis London is a host in himself, his vivid manner of getting a song across making him a prime favourite, and he never leaves the stage without vociferous shouts to repeat previous successes. Mr. Leonard Nelson is another single artist who has a special knack in gripping his audience, and in old and new ditties he catches on with instantaneous success. Thurber and Thurber uphold the comedy element in their cleverly-conceived acrobatic act, while Pagden and Stanley also dispense merriment in agreeable style. Miss Maggie Foster’s violin selections complete a very attractive bill.