THREE WEEK'S OLD KITTENS WANTED FOR LOCAL PLAY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 70, 17 July 1950, Page 5

THREE WEEK'S OLD KITTENS WANTED FOR LOCAL PLAY

Two kittens about three weeks old are wanted by the Whakatane Repertory Socity before the company presents it’s first production, “You Can’t Take It With You” on July 26 and 27. In an important scene the kittens will be the centre of attention for a moment when they are carried from a table .into another room.

If anyone in the district has a couple of such kittens and is willing to lend them they should notify the Society at Carter’s Shoe Store. The Society guarantees to return the animals unharmed after the show.

Although it has only been formed a few months the Society has already progressed in its woi’k and the ability shown by members in rehearsals has revealed no lack of dramatic talent. Few have ever been on the stage before but the work put into the play, both of acting. and construction of scenery, has been so good as most amateur companies. All members are Whakatane people who have taken to this little theatre work through their love of the theatre. How far they have progressed will be seen when they go into the stage for the first time. In a rehearsal preview of the play last week it was hardly possible to believe that most .of the cast knew little of amateur dramatics. They carried their parts with confidence and were quick to correct any mistakes. ‘You Can’t Take It With You” is a complicated comedy of errors misunderstandings and confusion, out of which comes a suitably satisfying ending. Snakes in a glass case, a printing press, scripts of plays, homemade sweets, a dartboard, a typewriter and the furbelows of a ballerrina are packed together in one room and give the key to each character in the play. The players are anonymous.

The Vanderhof family are individually the most amusing found on the stage. This higgledy-pig-gledy family is jolted out of its carefree existence when the pretty daughter introduces her fiance and his perfectly orthodox parents. Only such a household could produce fireworks, G Men and a Grand Duchess. The Grand Duchess comes from the kitchen and straightens things out for them socially. Grandpa in the meantime commands respect from the Wall Street prospective father-in-law, for having baffled the income tax department—• and boy marries girl.