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"SUNSET LAND."

The musical fairy play, "Sunset Land," was produced by Miss Gladys Campbell and her pupils, with the aid of some others, in the Grand Opera Houso last night. Her Excellency tho Countess of Liverpool was present, and there was a good audience. The performance was given in aid of the Countess of Liverpool Fund. "Sunset Land" was'produced some weeks ago, so that it needed no special commendation for this occasion. For the entertainment is one of the most delightful that could he imagined. The plot of tho play, if such it must bo called, is a simple fairy story, just onoush story to link together a series of beautiful dances' and ballets and tableaux. Dancing is the feature of the performance, and there is nothing so beautiful as graceful dancing. -Miss Campbell is herself a dancer of remarkable grace, and her pupils have learried well their lessons. Some of them, though quite little children, have already their artistic sonse highly developed, and in the technique of their art they havo achieved a degree of excellence which is to say tho very least extremely uncommon. The ballets and tableaux, of which there are quite a number in'the little play, are wholly charming. No one who ever could see beauty in movement, who could ever remember boing young, or who lias any love for children, <!Ould be otherwise than charmed and delighted with "Sunset Land." The solo dancers were Miss Gladys Campbell, little Miss Hazel Hardwick, Miss Frances Muter, Miss Neata CarwcllCooke, Miss Joyce Couzens, and several of these appeared more than once. In the cast the biggest speaking parts were played by the two youngest performers, Miss Hazel Hardwick and Miss Eere Bcekivay. They are quite little actresses, and Miss Hazel Hardwick is also a dancer of exceptional promise. Miss Gladys Campbell played Dame Fortune, and in the story, as in tho presentation of it, her task is to see that everything happens as it is ordered. She had also a song or two, and, of course, dances. Miss M'arie Fix played principal boy in the role of Man in tho Moon, and she made quite a dashing and convincing young swain—a good part, well played. Miss Harjorio Nieholls doubled the parts of Father Neptune and Captain Drake. Miss Frances Muter played Sea Foam, the mermaid daughter of Neptune,, wooed by, and wooing, Man in the Moon. Other parts were taken by Miss Nesta Carwoll-Cooke, Miss Chrissio Young, and Miss Evelyn O'Brien. Before the final curtain the performers were almost overwhelmed with a perfect avalanche of favours. Miss Gladys Campbell received a beautiful bouquet, several others of the grown or growing-ups also received bouquets, and many of the little people boxes of chocolate. This ceremony was really one of tho most charming of tho evening. The eagerness and pleasure of the. tiniest performers was so very real, and their several ways of acknowledging tho favours so absolutely natural. Tho .very little ones smiled soraphicly and tucked thoir bundles under au arm in a mat-ter-of-fact way. Those not quite so little fondled and admired theirs, obviously impajient to open them, and, of course, tho older girls and the grownup performers received their tributes as properly as any groat ballerina or prima donna. To help the funds, stalls for the sale of flowers and sweets were set up in the vestibule, and over these stalls Mrs. F. M. B. Fisher and. Mrs.M*Ewon presided. They hod a host of assistants, and had no difficulty in selling out their entiro stock.

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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2863, 30 August 1916, Page 3

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"SUNSET LAND." Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2863, 30 August 1916, Page 3

"SUNSET LAND." Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2863, 30 August 1916, Page 3

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