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Evening Standard, Tuesday, November 2, 1937 London After Dark Three Skittish Little Men WELL done," said Hecate to Shakespeare's Weird Sisters, "I do commend your pains," the and it is to high Sherek's time I said something of sort Wiere Brothers: to do which night's new edition of "Laughter and Rhythm" at the Dorchester gives me an skittish little men opportunity. Three extraordinarily suddenly appear, white wearing dinner improbable Western hats and sing a skittish little song, play half a They dozen bars on the violin, sigh with infinite satisfaction at a day's work well done, and suddenly realise that they have only just begun. All of a twitter, they skip into a very for quick, darting head movements that flow in absurd little dance, in unison except cascades. One of them, whose the smallest and most skittish, the one smile shows even more gleaming teeth than the others', always gets the best of it. If they done do less an work than the other two, but acrobatic trick.

he has always always finishes in the middle, with the other two bowing to him. But they are all so polite and polished and precise that nobody minds. A superb trio of clowns, the Wieres, unique and enchanting. Marion and Irma, the newcomers to the show, you may remember as a pair of exquisitely made charmers who climb all over each other getting into quite impossible positions at the summit, and balancing there through the applause. Though their medium is at times, almost contortionism, they never lose their grace- barring a few inevitably ribby moments.

May I remind Mr. Cochran that he owes them a musical comedy? The, amiable great Russell and Swann for his is still conjuring. the as the tricks that are not done by his pageboy or his gramophone, or that are not ruined by the Wiere Brothers or an obliging but dumb June Taylor, are also very good. The Big Apple MR. the COCHRANS Trocadero Grill "Eve in Room the has Park" been in reinforced by 17-year-old Miss Louise Kline and her equally youthful-looking partner, Bill Ball.

Until a few weeks ago this pair. I am informed, had rarely left their home town of Charlotte. North Carolina. There they picked up from negros the steps of a new dance called the Big Apple, and won a contest at a local cinema. Since then they have been (I quote my informant verbatim) rocketted to the forefront of the dancing world." and the Big Apple has "swept America." The dance appeared to me to be a combination of the Charleston and the sanddance, with some of the body movements of the rumba.

It is tapless but intricately Sydney Carroll SUNDAY TIMES SaYS I CONSIDER IT. MAGNIFICENT His magic words transformed the name--Dreyfus -into a chapter of mankind's histery. PAUL MUNI The Greatest Actor of the Age! "THE LIFE OF EMILE GALE National SONDERGAARD Picture with A First Donald Crisp Gloria Holden SCHILDKRAUT JOSEPH Henry O'Neill Louis Erin Calhern and Cast of Thousands. Shewing BOOK at 12 noon, 2.30, 4.30. NOW usual at the Bor Office or the Ticket Agencies.

CARLTON THE ST CANNOT BE SEEN ELSEWHERE UNTIL. NEXT MARCH! MISS LOUISE KLINE and MR. BILL BALL in the "Big Apple dance at Trocadero. rhythmic, jerky, but not ungraceful, and great fun to watch. As to whether we shall all be dancing it in the ballrocm, I have my doubts, though a modified form of it might catch on.

Its steps have such intriguing names as Peck and Pose," Swing High." "Swing and Susie Some of Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies dance it with Miss Kline and Mr. Ball, and seem to have acquired proficiency, though that does not mean that it is easy. And, in case it matters to you, I am begged to add that when it is danced by Miss Kline and Mr. Ball without the chorus it is more properly called the Little Apple.

From Crazy Days 'TO-NIGHT'S visitors to the Grosvenor "Beauty Circus" are Stanley Lupino and company from "Crazy Days' at the Shaftesbury. I look forward to giving a particularly big hello to the Yacht Club Boys, who open a month's season at the de Paris next Thursday. A new edition of "Revudeville" is due at the Windmill on Monday. Matthew Norgate. Frances Day in "Floodlight" A of Beverley Nichol's "Floodlight," with Frances Day and George Lacy heading the cast, opened at Golders Green Hippodrome last night.

"THE Welchman DESERT SONG." with Harry in his original part of the Red Shadow, is the attraction at Streatham Hill Theatre this week. The Margot" of this production is Miss Doris Francis. TULIP. TIME," the musical comedy produced by Miss Anne Croft at the old Alhambra two years, ago, is at Wimbledon Theatre this AT the Watford Palace this "While week Edward Nelson Players present Parents Sleep," by Anthony Kimmins. A.

VERY with satisfying performance of Macbeth," simplified scenery for its five acts and 23 scenes, was done at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith, last night, with Donald Wolfit as the Macbeth and Phyllis Neilson-Terry the Lady Macbeth. To-night is "Hamlet." and The Taming of the Shrew," "Twelfth Night" and "The Merchant of Venice" come later in the week. A Continental Quartet LISTENING once more to M. Feri Roth and his colleagues at the Wigmore Hall last evening, one was to find their work more endearing than ever, among that of Continental Quartets who pay us regular visits, so fine drawn yet vigorous is it. Between the Brahms (A minor, Op.

51, No. 2) and Beethoven Quartets they played Bartok's First, dating from 30 years ago and owing its charm to spontaneity, not to the fractional distillation of discords. All the same, it was the older compositions that sounded the depths of their musicianship. DINAH DELLA CARROLL EDWARD COOPER AND MILLER DIVINA CHARLES THE STARLETS HIS ARTHUR BAND ROSEBERY EN FLOOR "LES DAZZLING 189, REGENT STREET. PARADISE BROADWAY REGENT 1514.

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