REPERTORY SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 14 November 1930, Page 3

REPERTORY SOCIETY.

A SUCCESSFUL SEASON

The Jellicoe Hall was again full last night, . when the Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society presented two plays, "The Dumb and the Blind," by Harold ChApin, and "The Confederates," by H. M. Harwpod. Both plays were excellently performed, and' the attention of the aiidierice was not allowed to wander for a moment. The whole of the action of "The Dunjb and the Blind," which is an exposition of the domestic life of a bargee, takes place in a humble home-—the wile a drudge and tlie husband a rough-and-ready -workman. , Mr A. C. Rendle, with excellent make-up and suitably gruff manner, introduced real drama into his lines as the husband, and Mr Wm. C. Collins, as his. friend, Bill Pepper. although having little to do, provided a good' foil. ■ "The Confederates", was an interesting sample of melodramatic farce, a tale of matrimonial scheming and the invoking of the assistance of a divorce in produce ing'financial results. As..Fairbanks, .Mr P. L. Mansell was curt and convincing. As. the,woman,. Miss Olive Booth, was smart, sheering, and well cast,: " " Miss Kiore King was 'the' producer of both plays, and she may 'be congratulated" on 'another success.