FLAYS & CASTS AT DRAMA FESTIVAL AT TANEATUA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 16, 25 July 1949, Page 5

FLAYS & CASTS AT DRAMA FESTIVAL AT TANEATUA

- Following are the plays and players at last week’s Women’s Institue Federation drama festival at Taneatua: — The Plays & Players Plays presented, with their casts, were:— \ All Night Service: Comedy, Whakatane W. 1., 59 points. Scene, Office of Clayton’s, London. Cast: Molly Austen, Anne White, Jill Watson, Jean -Wilson, Sally Angus, and Maire Stokes (all employed at the London West End office Clayton’s typewriting bureau), Miss Mitten (Superintendent) Myrtle Rugg, Mrs Hatchard (Caretaker) Anne Teasdale), Police Woman, Edythe Ranby, A Great Lady, Louisa Grant. Producer, Irene Sutcliffe. The Frozen Heart: Drama, Taneatua W. 1., 77 points. Scene, Kitchen of German House in the Bavarian Alps. Cast: Mdme Bertrand (Belgian Woman) Lennie Gardner, Frau Muller (German Woman) Gladys McDonald, Anna (Her daughter) Dorothy Tebbutt, Emma, Netta McGougan, Sister Ursula (A Nun) Jean Merrie. Producer, Eileen Semmens.

Widows: Comedy, Waiotahi W. 1., 47 points. Scene, Mrs Smith’s living room. Cast: Mrs Smith, Stella Allison, Mrs Pink, Mary Shove, Mrs Yobb, Molly Lambert. Producer, Stella Allison.

Shepherd’s Pie: Comedy, Otara W. 1., 53 points. Cast: Aunt Pops, Dele Love, Lizie, Agnes McCallion, Jane, Peggy and Cowslip (Lizzie’s daughters) Laura Clayton, Alice Ricketts and Mavis Connor, Visitor, Lois Gordon, June, Olga Black, Miss Iggulden, Sybil McMillan. Producer, Olga Black. The Miser of Rogafjord: Drama, Waimana W. 1., 75 points. Scene, The living room in village Rogafjord, Norway. Cast: Ella Hanseny_ Verona Looney, Eliabeth Borling, Harriet Hampton, Martha Fasting, Muriel Wardlaw, Karen, Alice White. Producer, Eva Stansbury. Matrimonial: Comedy, Kowhai W. 1., 6*2 points. Cast: Mrs Gosling (The Cook) Maizie Cooper, Iris (The Parlourmaid) Helen Lawrie, Ivy (the Kitchenmaid) Elva Hall, Ella (The Sewing Maid) Marjorie Rowson, The Policewoman, Elsie Shuker. Prducer, Ngaire Sullivan. Idols: Drama, Matata W. 1., 75 points. Scene, Sitting room in Charlotte Morean’s house, Paris: Cast: Charlotte Morean, L. Warbrick, Sophie (her unmarried sister), J. Anderson, Louise (her widowed sister), R. Caverhill, Yaronne (her daughter-in-law), M. Lees, Citoyenne Jourdan (aged 70), M. Withy, Catherine Jourdan (her daughter), M. Burt. Producer, Mrs Lugeson. Beginner’s Luck: Comedy, Taneatua W. 1., 65 points. Cast: Miss Diddicombe (Sec. Middleburn W. 1.), Lionie Gardner, Mrs Masters Mrs Borson, Mrs Bower, Mrs Styles, Rose Hardy (villagers and members of the W. 1.) Gladys McDonald, Bessie Bennett, Maud Hayward, Netta McGougan and Dorothy Tebutt, Lady Blogg (a lady of spoiling tastes). Producer, Eileen Semmens.

When the Whirlwinds Blow: Drama, Whakatane W. 1., 72 points. Scene, Josef’s house near town of minor importance in any European country in throes of political upheavels. Cast: Madame Elizabeth Androya (wife of General Androya of regular army) Marion King, Josefa (mother of General’s blacksmith near workman’s council) Ruby Murphy, Anna (lady’s maid) Doreen Mussett. Producer, Marion King. Five to Five Thirty: Comedy, Waimana W. 1., 72 points. Scene: Sitting room in Mrs Treetop’s villa on a summer afternoon. Cast: Mrs Boxer, Barbara Stevenson, Edith, Kathleen Hewitt, Alice, Rita Martin, Gertie, Clare Potter, Mrs Treetops, Gwen Mitchell. Producer, Mary Wylde. Oh! Let Him Pass.” Drama, Edgecumbe W. 1., 75 points. Scene: Hall in a house in the country. Cast: Amy Hargraves (a widow) Iris Hepburn, Cynthia Hargreaves (her daughter) Blanche “McClean, Joan Malmorn (her son’s fiance) Leila Jamieson, Dr Anson, Anne Radcliffe, Nurse, Ivy Perkins. Producer, Blanche McClean.

Sanctuary” Drama, Otakiri W. 1., 75 points. Scene: Room in old house in Paris used as a convent by Nuns dispersed .in French revolutions. Cast: Sister Francoise. Minnie Steenson, Sister Anne, Kathleen Armstrong, Mother Marie, Eve Carr, Mademoiselle de Cisa, Nancy Carr, Marguerite, Ruth Campbell, Citoyenne.Kerne, Jean Murray, Widow Pen-sol, Lou Peck. Producer, L. Peck.

The carrier was placing parcels of Auckland Stars cn the footpath when a Great Dane came along and walked off with one of them. The dog’s owner searched the house and then tried the garden. Freshly-turn-ed earth caught their eye, and the papers were found.