THE RAYNERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 14

THE RAYNERS

HAPPY^IN SAN FRANCISCO

Following are some extracts from a letter received by Mrs. E. A. CaerlyonBennett from Joan and. Betty Rayner, which will interest many people: Los Angeles, California.—We intended to send all our New Zealand friends a message at Christmas, but we were so busy playing in San Francisco that we could not do it, and as it happened the strike was on. So perhaps the letters .would have arrived late, anyway!

We are simply loving this place— specially San Francisco—and have bought a car and caravan and intend to cross fhe! continent after we finish our engagements here. It is the only way to-really "dig in" to a place when you are doing a job like ours. I wish ■you could see our beautiful little home planted in the middle of the quaintest old nursery garden in the heart of San Francisco. The garden is full of weird cacti and old familiar plants from Australia and New Zealand; and l-ight at the end of the caravan, on the top of a rocky little knoll, is a great clump of New Zealand flax!

This town hats simply caught us up! We just loved it from the minute we landed here. What seems so wonderful is that they have had an exceptionally mild autumn and winter, so that we have been very happy living in the caravan, and it is rather like an English summer. We have been having splendid audiences here; such quick appreciation and such a joy to play to. It is a strange thing that we always get the quickest appreciation in towns where the weather is not too salubrious and people get time to read and think. The whole tour has been one of the happiest we have ever done, and that is saying a good deal, because we have had some very happy ones before.