AMATEUR DRAMATISTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3123, 29 June 1917, Page 7

AMATEUR DRAMATISTS

PERFOMTANCE TN AID OF THE CRIPPLED SOLDIERS' HOSTEL. A. bright, pleasant was nrovided in tho Town Hall last evening by Mr. Oulford Bell and riupils of hia school of (Ira.ma.tin art. It was tho result of a considerable amount of painstaking work noth by teacher and the pupil?, and the fact that it was presented in aid of tho Crippled Soldiers' Hos. Tel Fund surely entitled it to liberal public support. Tho attendance, however, was not 60 largo its it aiight have been. Mr. Bell staged [our pier.es in all. The first whs n. one-act comedy entitled

.'"Timo is Money." In this. Mr. Vryn Evane, Miss Mabel Galliclian, and Miss Prances Snell provoked the audience lo roars of merriment Following "Timo is Money" was a pretty Japanese fantasy called "The Mirror," which neatly pointed a moral, and was' diverting at the same time. The performers were: Mr. Theodore Hills (who, by {he way, made a rerv efficient stage manager), Mies Fanny Kutaer; and Miss Constance Theel. Tho production was accompanied by epeciil music from tho orchestra.

"Dream races"'' was described on the programme an "a dramatic fancy.' - ' Jfc struck a. more serious note than any of the other sketches, and -was 6pecially enjoyed for the delicate work of MissD9 Alba Greening and Flo Gow and Ifr. Bell. Miss Greening this tender mi sympathetic, -n-hilo Miss Gem' displayed all the glow of ingenuous youth that her part ranked. The. curtain rung down with .a merry farce—"A Sister to Assist 'er." Jlere Miss Constanco Tlicel shone in the part of "petfick lidy," and Misa Queonie M'lnerner in (hat of an impressiona-blo landlady, not of the upper classes. A. feature of the entertainment •was th work of the orchestra, made up of fifteen instrumentalists recruited from the Savage Club, the Orphans' Orchestra, and Turners String Band. The playera ■were under the direction of Mr. F. Wolfgang. To-night "Mr. Bell -will present again "Tims is Money," "Dream Faces," "A. Sister in Assist 'er," and will stage jn addition "Tho'Art of Love." Last, evenings performances were given, under Vine, Itegal patronage