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Radio Record, 8 July 1938, Page 20

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LOSS TO DUNEDIN AMATEUR STAGE

WITHIN a week or two of scor- ~ ing a success with his interpretation of. Tristan, friend of King Louis, in the Dunedin Operatic Society’s noteworthy venture, "The Vagabond King," Mr. Sydney G. Lock passed to that land where actors never need to rehearse their roles. Mr. Lock’s brilliant character roles had much to do with putting amateur dramatic art in Dunedin on its high plane, He was too big a man, too big an actor, to remain confined to one society. The Dunedin Repertory Societys, the Little Theatre, the Operatic Society, the Shakespeare Club-all these organisations knew him, honoured hin, and many and important have been the parts assigned to him by these societies, Nothing was too much trouble for him, and, amateur though he was, he believed in the tradition, "The show must go on." During the Repertory Society’s presentation of Galsworthy’s "The Show," played only a few weeks before the "Vagabond King," Mr. Lock was suffering from chronic asthma. He was an ill man when "The Show" opened, but he- carried on, at times finding it difficult to speak his lines. He was not a New Zealander, though he served with. the Auckland Regiment in the war, and gained the Military: Medal for bravery in the field. He caine to New Zealand from England about the war period. Sydney Lock has taken his final eurtain.