Wellington Girl Wins Playwright Trophy

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 7, 25 August 1933, Page 19

Wellington Girl Wins Playwright Trophy

Congratulations to Ilma Levy, of Wellington, who has won this year’s "Dairy Exporter" Playwright Trophy with her one-act play, "God Made Two Trees." Each year the "Radio Record" and the "Dairy Exporter" offer trophies to the persons

submitting the best one-act plays which remain unpublished at the time of judging. Miss Levy’s play was performed in Wellington last week during the British Drama League’s festival, and was highly commended by the adjudicator, Miss Kiore King. Miss Levy is no newcomer to the literary field. She comes of a journalistic family (her father, Mr. Ivan Levy, . is a well-known journalist and story writer) and has edited and sub-edited the official publication of Victoria College. Miss Levy’s success of last week is her fourth literary prize in the past 12 months, and even in the days when she was a pupil at Wellington Girls’ College and Chilton House School she was considered something of an infant prodigy in literary circles. Miss Levy’s. favourite recreation is golf, and she is.also an enthusiastic -. radio fan-in fact her home was one of the first in New Zealand to be equipped with a receiving set.