DRAMA FESTIVALS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20278, 21 August 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)

DRAMA FESTIVALS.

Winners of Drama Festivals. “All In the Day’s Work,” presented by the Wanganui Repertory Society, j won the fifth annual Wanganui area j festival of the British Drama League. The festival was concluded in one night, three senio rand two junior Plays being* presented. The Napier Repertory Players In "The Three Hundredth Performance,” took the honours in A grade in the seventh annual festival of the Hawke’s Bay Drama League. The adjudicator was Miss Helen Gard'ner, of Wellington. women’s institute Drama Festival. A Drama Festival organised by the Northern Hawke’s Bay Federation of Women’s Institutes, was held at Taradale last week. The plays presented were:—“The Green Monkey,” Greenmeadows; “The Bride,” Pakowhai; “ Ali the Cobbler,” Havelock North; “Little Glass Houses,” Eskdale; “Cupid in a Hat Shop,” Taradale; and “The Incorruptible,” Haumoana. “ Wald of Domremy ” at Stratford. “ of Domremy,” with which the Hamilton Play x>x won the recent drama festival Li Hamilton, was also successful in the Central Taranaki festival at Stratford last week, being placed equal with “ Blenheim ” in the junior section. The senior section of the festival was won by a scene from " Othello ” (Stratford), with “Saturday Night” (Rahotu) second and “Five at the George” (Te Ope) third.