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Round the New Shows

... Revudeville DAUNTLESS and indefatigable is the little Windmill Theatre, where the present revue has reached its 143rd year, or 143rd edition-- I forget which, but it is pro- bably the latter. Among the new items is a Paris and the Golden Apple episode, in which the Venus (Miss Margot Harris there is not much of her, and not much on her) is certainly not 143 years old. I am told, indeed, that ...

Darkness and Light

... The Wanderer, Ballet (New) WHEN a modern ballet seems to be more than ordinarily puzzling, a programme note usually informs us that the theme is Man- kind wrestling against Fate (very unkind). We then listen to a familiar symphony, such as Brahms's No. 4, or Tchaikowsky's No. 5, and wonder why the theme should be inter preted by the excited leaps and bounds of some athletic young men and by ...

The Big Bouquet

... I The I Big 1 Bouquet Revudeville IT is the fashion nowadays to hand out bouquets to such theatrical managements who keep on keeping on. The largest bouquet of all should certainly go to the little Windmill Theatre, which last week launched the 141st edition of its revue; this has been running for a matter of ten years. There is, of course, no semblance whatever in the present show to that ...