REPERTORY SOCIAL

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 229, 24 June 1944, Page 8

REPERTORY SOCIAL

Enjoyed By Large Audience Approximately 600 members and friends attended the Wellington Repertory Theatre’s social in St. Francis Hall last night. Four, one-act plays were presented, giving an opportunity for members to appear before the footlights. Afterward supper was served and the evening was concluded with .a dance, an orchestra supplying the music. The plays included “Tea For Three, by Margery Vosper, produced by Aileen Parkhouse, in which Percy Cousins, Joan Kilpatrick. Peter Whitchurch and Marie Burns appeared, and “The Bronze Lady and the Crystal Gentleman,” by. Henri Duvernois. The players in this Bernard O. Jones, Lewis Jagger. Rich--ard Campion, A. Smuts-Kennedy _ and Helena Sullivan, and the producer Nance Potter The prize-winning New Zealand play in the Drama League festival three years ago. “The Willing Horse,” by Isohel Andrews, was produced by Henry Kelly, and had a cast of 10. consisting of Violet Wilson. Audrey Wearing. Mary Wall, Betty Spinley. N. S. Edelsten, Isobel Khull. Pat Burnette, A. Jemmett, Catherine Forde, Peggy Cartwright. The fourth play was Alfred s Marriage Has Been Arranged, the players being Mary Stott and Arthur Heany, who also produced it. During the interval between each play, Mrs. Charles McDonald’s orchestra provided incidental music.