ARTISTIC AMATEUR ENTERTAINMENT FOR KARITANE BABIES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 11, 30 September 1927, Page 6

ARTISTIC AMATEUR ENTERTAINMENT FOR KARITANE BABIES

All the world aud his wife, femininity very smartly apparelled, turned up at the show given last week in Wellington for the benefit of the Plunket Society. ‘he music was excellent, glimmering girls danced and postured, and two plays, produced under the direction of Mr. W. S. Wauchop, were entirely successful. Especial interest was taken in a farce of which the joint authors are Mr. Hubert Rose and Mr. C, R. Allen, the novels and plays of the latter being at present so much a topic among the Titerary elect. "How to Look at Pictures" is funny to a degree; no end of amusing situations, extremely witty and allusive dialogue, with irresistible backhanders for the extremists of the modern school of colonrists, The scene takes place in a studio, where Mr, Morris Dunkley, as a stockbroker impersonating a painter,

‘was really delightful; finished acting, diverting fooling, and attractive personality, From Mrs. Coleridge one expects good work: she has the faculty of living in her part, be it grande dame, or kitchen girl, and her performance of the harassed housekeeper added another to her list of snecesses. Miss Rona Allen (sister of the playwright) looked well but had little to say, atid the rest of the cast acted capably, notably Mr. ‘Todd McCaw, an irascible and literal-minded colonel. A very funny farce, extremely clever and droll, and when, at the end of the performance Mr. Allen bowed acknowledgments to lond cries of "Author, -author,’? he must have felt in his bones that there was no doubt of its success. A short sketch, "The Hat Trick,’? was presented in right professional fashion by Mr, Wauchop.

(most mirth producing as a flower girl), Mr. Vivian Rhind convincing as a pavement artist in love, and Miss Marjorie Statham, the latter very loveable as a little Cockney girl, speaking her lines well, and acting with natural charm and restraint. One would guess that Miss Statham has a natural sense of the dramatic, and her dancing charmed the eye with its gay grace and vivacity; as also did that ot two dainty darlings of six or so, who were a joy to behold. Miss Madeline Vyner’s pupils did graceful and charming work, and Miss Vyner herself was quite lovely in classic pose and movement in the "Hymn to the Sun.’ Altogether. an uncommonly good show, and one hopes these gifted people will keep on doing things like this, and that as a consequence the Plunket babes will laugh and grow fat. 4