OUR LOCAL THEATRE.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 50, 22 May 1930, Page 3

OUR LOCAL THEATRE.

For many years it has been .possible, by maens of the 'gramophone, and, to a certain extent —even in these remote regions^—over -the radio, for us to hear the world's best music, but the "Talkies," enabling us, as they do, to both see and hear the world 'a musicians, statesmen; etc., seem to bridge, the distance and draw us nearer tfhe -hnub of this-world's affairs. Last week, Mussolini of the forceful gait and jncini was heard on matters of; international interest, the speech—except for the foreigifaccn't-T-coihiiLg througih perfectly •clear- Then one saw and •heard that wonderfully trained choir of.St. Peter's, Eome, with its venerable, illustrious leader. Then —"Words and Music,"- redolent of the effervescence of ' yojuth—-American youth, of both sexes—was just the youthful, irresponsible frolic of university students who are preparing for a collegiate carnival, the event itself proving a most dazzling, ravishing affair, and in the preparation for that great event, the elderly,•austere matron, whose extremely eanlyVictorian sensibilities were so outraged iby the young people Js exuberant doings, was a cause of great mirth to the onlookers, particularly "when she ,felt it -incumbent upon her to inform them that ''You'll reap what you sow!'' Privately, one felt that should that eventuate :—«,nd it 'generally does!—the "reaping" would "be rather, delightfiuO! One could,not help feeling that Hutt residents are fortunate in having a •theatre at their awn doors, so to speak, where they, may joy such edtiicational and, entertaining illim's as our Hutt theatre produces; .