A Tiller trouble of Russian girls from Shanghai may be an attraction at the Alkazar cabaret Hamburg in the near future. So says Herr Carl-Wilhelm Longer, li] who is the Far East in search for talent.
Herr Longer, who ix the Operating General Manager for the Hotel Reichshof at Hamburg, as, well as the Alkazar cabaret in the same town, and the Kurhaus hotel Travemonda, is out in this. part of the world for the second time. In 1928" ho visited Japan, where he engaged troupe of Japanese jugglers. and. acrobats, who went to Germany with him.
Now he is hero looking for Chinese and Russian artistes who can entertain the visitors to the Alkazar. He passed through Shanghai a few weeks ago and went to. Hongkong, Singapore and Manila in search of talent, But he has come back to Shanghai.
"The idea of a troupe of Tiller girls came to him og he passed Through recently. In Shanghai, he hopes, he can get together 12 or 18 itis, to form the frst all-Russian Tiller troupe. If he cannot at first accomplish his intention, he intends to engage someone to form the troupe for him, and, if necessary, 0 to Harbin in search of talent, Other talent in Shanghai may also be attracted, Herr Longer, as his firm rong a cabaret as well as a theatre, is always looking for variety' and. something new. with which to entertain his Hamburg [guests and. the patrons of his cabaret. "I have come to Shanghai to see if I can find something out lof the ordinary" he stated at the Palace Hotel shortly after his arrival yesterday. "I must have good factors, as well as novelty tums.
Russian Tiller troupe before: Rusoboay "has ever formed, [sians, are good dancers, so I have Toeal hopes.
Whether he will get his Tiller troupe or not is hard to tell. But lhe may. find something out of the ordinary Yun with which to entertain Hamburg, and its transient population.
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