sentences:  Willis was just what Ross had been looking for.The "Half Past Eight" show opened on 31 May 1937, and was billed as 'An after dinner light revue of song, dance and laughter – also starring Cliff Harley, Florence Hunter and the Charles Ross Girls'.At first, only a few hundred came to see the show, and by the end of the third week Cruikshank was about to close the production.