BRITISH DRAMA LEAGUE

Evening Star, Issue 22147, 30 September 1935, Page 2

BRITISH DRAMA LEAGUE

SECOND ANNUAL MEETING There was a large attendance at the Otago Women’s Club for the above league’s second annual meeting. The annual report revealed signs of much activity in the league, several new groups having affiliated during the year. The area festival judged by Mr Beeby, was a great success, artistically, and financially, for Otago, besides j)rqducing a balance sheet which constituted a record for New Zealand, obtained another “A ” certificate with the Thespian Club’s production of of ‘He.’ The junior festival and the play-writing competition for Lady Ferguson’s trophy were innovations here that both proved successful., An* Easter School of Drama in Dunedin was foreshadowed, and this should prove of great interest to local students • of things dramatic who have not been able to get away to the schools held in other C6IltT6St The election of office-bearers resulted :—Patrons Lady. Ferguson, Lady Sargood, Professor'T. D. Adams; president, Miss Bessie Thomson; vicepresidents—Mrs Sutherland Ross, Mrs Richard Hudson, Miss May Barron, Dr E. H. Williams, Mr Q. R. Allen, and Mr John Ash; hon. secretary, Mr P. H. W. Nevill; hon. treasurer, Mr R. J. Cook; comrnittee-2-Mesdamea Myers and Lawrenson and group representatives ; representatives on national council—Mrs Lawrenson, Misses Thomson, and Barron, Messrs Ash, Dali, and Henderson. , Lady Ferguson was nominated as a vice-president ■ on the New Zealand Branch Committee. . . At the subsequent committee meeting Dr Williams was elected chairman and Mr Ash vice-chairman."• The thanks of the meeting for the great assistance given the league by the Press was expressed in-a motion, which was carried by acclamation.