Radio Player Judges Drama
INALS of the Auckland Provincial Centennial Drama Festival were judged this month by May MacDonald, of Napier, whose photograph has already appeared in The Listener as a member of the cast of the Hector Bolitho radio play "Victoria and Disraeli,’ in which she took the part of the Queen. Miss MacDonald is one of the leading personalities in the theatre of New Zealand. She has been connected with the theatre since she was fourteen years of age. She was for four years dramatic mistress at the Nelson School of Music, Nelson College, and the Nelson Girls’ College. She was appointed dramatig mistress at the Napier Technical College
in 1928. Three years later she founded the Napier Repertory Players and has since produced fortynine one-act plays and fourteen either full-length plays or musical _- shows. Under her direction the Napier Repertory Players have five times been the winners of the Hawke’s Bay Festival in the annual competition of the British Drama League. On one occasion they won the New Zealand Final with their production of "300th Per-
formance," and were second the year that the Winchenden Players from Auckland won with "Jael." She is also experienced in adjudicating. Miss MacDonald has taken part in twelve radio plays produced by the National Broadcasting Service. The elimmation series in the Auckland Provincial Festival was judged by Margaret Barr. Miss Barr is a recent arrival from London,-and has. much to contribute to the cultural life of Auckland, and indeed New Zealand. She was a pupil of Martha Graham, probably the foremost dancer of the day in the United States, and of the San Francisco Theatre School, conducted by Maurice Brown. Later she was for five years at Dartington Hall, the estate at Totnes (in Devonshire), which has been the centre of a remarkable experiment in rural reconstruction and in the provision of recreation for people in their leisure hours. It is the hope of the Auckland Drama Council that the necessary afrangements will shortly be completed to permit Miss Barr to commence classes in movement, that branch of stage work in which she has a specialised knowledge,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 9
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356Radio Player Judges Drama New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 9
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