“THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.”

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 8 September 1920, Page 2

“THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.”

>ii;i-'peare V play-' n.-oldor; / in public aday~. but. it i. pi*-'* 4 *■ ; g -O know !. i.-i* 'I: cO hi ft >;■> : :ri Ml; produced \>) 1 reading club*. etc. The LLerurj ■| ft nr) Debating Chub take- one o j >h;.* kv-peare T - play* .v- a readiu; | nea r.y every -c--ior:. This year t choice toil upon one of the be*?. : known flne.-t of the whole -elec t i. oft. *‘ i hfc JNJercha nof Veince. ' for -ever.-*! weok- pant the member* have been prae? .*-;ug, and the publi reading - gr. e;. at the Druid* 1 lift! 1 on .Monday night la-;., when there v.a.* a capital attendance of juexabcr* nnc the public. The reading v/a- carried through mo-r intelligently and pleasingly, and the "•hole performance re fleets greet credit on all who partied pa ted. The following took the various par*-: —Portia, Mrs Stable; Bfmanio, Mr -d* :.hle; Shylock. Mr W. H. Wiiiw B. A : Antonio. Mr Prank Penn; Oratna.no. 2*l r O. li. Fi-ber: h’erjssa, 3Xi*fe O ? Hourke; MU- Bil2«; Prince of Morocco, hi. A- K. Budkin; Gob bo. Mr W. Vaughan: Lmy&cejot -Gubbo, Mr T. Colliri«; Lorenzo, Mi / * O, more; the Duke of Venice, K*-Jjf v. . Petrie. M.A.; bsdarino. Mr 6, Korgrove; >nhnlo. Mi-« Perm; Valerio, -• I r V*. Ben net * • A Hof th e pa ti t we re •veil sustained. -bowing that the readers had grasped the craning of * - r nr-e-. and the rendering* were rcort creditable. Kev. Petrie, tvho •-.•"ed a- stage manager, briefly otttth-- -tory of the play, and made * lev explanation-. Much of the - - ’ • ' ‘ ■ ' ifig - ■ iaife t/i thin gent.er:;an. who genere.Py *tFperviMhl the rehearsals. At ?ne conclusion of the reading'. Byron Brow; heartily comic ende i *ae reader- or the e tee lienee of their ■vork. He said .wv he v.; . tfiat U: f ; y ha-t t;:>br f 7;, " - plev*. ;-,-»iiit. ; *’:at frciii a ttcfiy <*t ' ‘ lie..-.mortal fisud r.<72 .Jarful irorlt*. '•'•• 'h: a jurist ssGic*** i/; «»•*«>• •' : . - si g tiisd profliat/ltj