ACTIVITIES OF

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20953, 4 November 1939, Page 15 (Supplement)

ACTIVITIES OF

Hamilton Girl in Sydney Betty Welch, formerly of Hamilton, continues to find life in Sydney very interesting and enjoyable. She writes:— “I have never recited to a more appreciative audience in my life than when I did so to the soldiers at La Perouse. Seven times I had to recite, before they would let me go, and they gave me three cheers. It was very thrilling; and I was very glad to think that I could do my bit, by entertaining them. “Marie Bremner, well-known stage actress, was to have sung, but unfortunately she was called away on private business, and was unable to appear. “I have been playing in some wonderful radio shows these last few weeks. We have just finished making “Clive of India.” I played the beautiful part of Margaret Maskelyne, Clive’s wife; while another New Zealander, Warren Barry, played Clive. “A very good racing show, taken from Nat Gould’s book “A Gentleman Rider,” has just finished over here and may start in New Zealand one day. I have the dramatic part of Brenda Mayne, the mystery woman, who, by the way, is not a character in the book but was written in especially for me. “I am also to play in the famous “Dad and Dave” series one day. “I’d love to do some stage work one day. J. C. Williamson are producing a number of excellent straight plays, starring lan Keith, the American actor. I went to see him in “I Killed the Count,” which was excellent. Next week there will be “Dinner at Eight.” “Tomorrow night the New Zealand Younger Set present four plays in which I play two leads. Most Startling Show in Sydney The most startling thing in the way of entertainments in Sydney, says Mr Marcus Marks, who has just returned to Wellington from Australia, is “Switzerland,” at the Theatre Royal. The whole stage has been converted into a frozen lake—real ice—and upon this floor is given a series