IONA COLLEGE PUPILS GIVE DISPLAY OF DRILL AND DRAMATIC WORK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 193, 1 September 1937, Page 11

IONA COLLEGE PUPILS GIVE DISPLAY OF DRILL AND DRAMATIC WORK

An excellent display of the drill and , dancing and also an enterfaining sample . of the dramatie work of the pupils of Iona College, Havelock North^ was eni joyed last evening by a good number of parents and friends who were received by the principal, Miss McNeill. The first part of the programme consisted of a splendid variety of drill exercises and country dancing. The pupils were di.vided into three groups for their exercises, senior, intermediate and junior, and throughout, the exercises were faultlessly carried out, giving cvidence of the careful and eapable training from which the pupils reeeive great bcnefit. The very neat and tidy uniforms added eonsiderably to the general appearance of tlie drill which was carried out to musie. Mgure marching and balance bench drill by the seniors and hoop-marching by the intermediates was equally well displayed. Several country dances were given Py tho pupils, these including "Eppiug Forest, ' > by the juniors, "Hunsdon House,,, by fho seniors, ' ' Mage on a Crcc," by the intermediates. A parti.cularly attractive maypole dance was given by thp juniors and two dances in costume were heartily apjfiauded, these being a mazurka by the seniors and a threesome reel by seniors and intermediates. This part of the programme was followed by an historical sketch "Catherine Parr ' ' by Mauri ce Baring and a one-act play "The Romany Road" by Harold BrighouseT Both plays wiere splendidly acted by the pupils and were watched with much interest. The frocking also was most attractive. The casts were as follow: — "Catherine Parr". — King Henry VIII., B. Thomson; Queen Catherine, M. Seott; Page, M. Smith. "The Romany Road". — Lord Ranacre, M. C. Crompton; Jaikes (his valet), P.' Key; Sir ltufus Appleford,

B. Thomson; Dame Margit, M. Scott; The • Pedlar (Jericho Borzlam), H. Hodgson; Jessamine Appleford, A. Bridge; Audrey (the Cowherd's Daughter), C. Maney; Susan (a Milkmaid), P. Mason; Rhona Borzlam, B. Odell. j Among those present were: Mr and Mrs J. B. Campbell, Mr and Mrs C. J. Baker, Mr and Mrs R. Bridge, Mr and Mrs J. Wedd, Dr. and Mrs K. E. Crompton and Miss Catherine Crompton, Eev. and Mrs S. Weymouth, Mrs H. Lovell.Sniitli, Mr and Mrs A. F. Glenny, Mi3S D. Wakelin, Mrs H. W. C. Baird, Misses 3. and L. Baird, Miss G. Wynyard, Mrs Gibbons, Miss H. Waugh, Mr and Mrs C. G. Wilkinson, Miss M. TurnerWilliams^ Mrs A. E. Palmer, Mrs Mason Chambers, Mr and Mrs C. Bates, Mrs J. J. Nimon, Miss M. Collins, Miss Marie Hennah, Mrs A. G. Stead, Miss Connie Symes, Mrs lloyston Campbell, Mr and Mrs C. B. Spinney, Mr and Mrs A. Smith, Mr and Mrs Bailey, Mr and Mrs Guy Rochfort, Mrs A. D. S. Whyte, Miss Couper, Mrs Maurice Chambers, Mi'ss Leslie Matheson, Miss B. Struthers, Mr and Mrs Gordon Mason and Miss J. Mason, Mrs R. Puflett, Mrs D. W. Hursthouse, Mr and Mrs A. C. A. Hyde, Mrs David Christic, Mr Neil Appleby,