THE CASTING OF PEARLS....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S immortal love story ‘Romeo and Julet’ hailed still as the tensest drama of all time was apparently wasted upon certain sections of the Whakatane audiences which viewed the beautiful picturisation of the play at the Regent Theatre last week. The silly tittering and ignorant laughter which greeted some of the most sublime scenes made one boil with indignation at the crass stupidity of the undeserving public. Where has our mass intelligence drifted to if after nearly four hundred years of genuine acclaim from all over the world the finest work of the greatest dramatist is to be ridiculed and scorned. Our intellectual outlook, if this is a sample of modern behaviour, is doomed.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 49, 5 March 1946, Page 4
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119THE CASTING OF PEARLS.... Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 49, 5 March 1946, Page 4
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