EVENING WITH DICKENS.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19892, 22 May 1936, Page 5

EVENING WITH DICKENS.

LITERARY & DRAMATIC SOCIETY. About 50 members of the Cambridge Literary and Dramatic Society were present at the Dickens evening held in the Parish Hall on Tuesday. Mrs G. S. L. Taylor was in charge of the evening, and appropriate extracts from Charles Dickens’ life and works had been chosen. An interesting talk on the lesser works of the. author was given by the president. Mr F. R. Wooldridge. After speaking of the humorous sketches of " Young Gentlemen” and •To Be Read at Dusk,” the speaker read an extract from the “.Mudfog Papers.” Miss G. Brann entertained with a clever sketch from “Little Dorrit.” Miss K. Goodwin and Miss Audrey Savory further illustrated (lie author with a sketch from "David I Copper field.” Mr S. N. Ziinan read an I extract from “Pickwick Papers.” Miss |A. .1. Greville (Ellerslie) and Mrs F. K. Wooldridge read an extract from "The Old Curiosity Shop,” after which Mr George Goodwin, in costume, re- | cited from Uriah Keep in "David Gop- * perfleld.’’ The evening closed with an extract from "The Uncommercial Traveller," read by Miss Betty Lee,