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Romance set in a 'physical culture hotel' in the mountains.
Source:
'Musical Comedy for Charity', News, 7 November 1934, p.5.
Notes
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Musical numbers included:
- 'Build a Little Home' ('with its ballet in flowing frocks')
- 'My Dog Loves Your Dog'
- 'Keep Young and Beautiful' (set in the gymnasium, 'in which eight girls form intricate patterns with large discs against a background of swaying ballet are three of these')
- 'Baby Take a Bow' ('syncopated')
- 'Six Women' (a 'slow blues number [...] with its comedy ballet')
- 'Spin a Little Web of Dreams' (a spectacular)
- 'Honeymoon Hotel'
- 'Liza Lee'
- 'Waiters on Parade'
- 'Moonlight Madonna'
- 'Riding on a Rainbow' (the finale, 'in which 100 girls form a huge living rainbow across the stage')
Source:
'Musical Comedy for Charity', News, 7 November 1934, p.5.
Production Details
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First produced at the Australia (Adelaide) on 27 and 28 November 1934, in aid of the Father Adelaide Christmas movement.
Cast members:
Lead roles were taken by Don Richardson, Mavis Stephen, Frank Kennedy, Decima Harvey, Gwen Freak, Joy Badenoch, Rex Saunders, and Cedric Hele.
Tap-dancing was undertaken by Jack Banyer ('and his boys').
Stanley Spry contributed a 'juggling tap number'.
Physical work in the gymnasium scene and the ballet work was done by students from Noel Hubble's Central College of Health.
Source:
'Musical Comedy for Charity', News, 7 November 1934, p.5.
