'THE DOVER ROAD'

Evening Star, Issue 21750, 19 June 1934, Page 10

'THE DOVER ROAD'

Produced by Miss Bessie Thomson, under whose direction so many excellent interpretations of modern drama have been presented to the people of Dunedin, ‘ The Dover Road ’ should prove high quality entertainment when it is staged at His Majesty’s Theatre on Thursday. Friday, and Saturday evenings of this week. ‘ The Dover Road.' written by A. A. Milne, is being played by the Otago University Dramatic Society, the organisation which gave us ‘ Rope ’ last year and Bernard Shaw's ‘ Anns and the Man ’ Hie year before. The cast, consisting entirely of students, is headed by Mr Lester Moller as Latimer, the philanthropic keeper of a house on the Dover road, with Mr Bruce M‘Kenzie as his assistant, Dominic; Miss Isobel Newlands as Anne, Miss Margot Garrett as Eustasia. Messrs Russell Napier and W. De Clive Lowe, as Leonard and Nicholas, represent two husbands eloping with each other’s wives. Minor places in the cast are filled by Misses J. Reid and J. Rae as maids, Messrs Williams and Heath as butlers, and Miss T. Ross and Mr G. Benson as travellers. The action takes place wholly in Mr'Latimer’s establishment, where the two couples arrive after suffering motor accidents which have been arranged by the invaluable Dominic. Here they find themselves unable to depart, and after several days of enforced idleness in the company if their respective new loves begin to realise that they are no better off than they had been in the company of the old. "