LITTLE THEATRE SOCIETY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 10

LITTLE THEATRE SOCIETY.

The parts for women in the "Apple Cart," a play by Bernard Shaw, which was presented by the Little Theatre Society on Saturday evening, are comparatively small, but two of them at least are roles of Cabinet Ministers, which should cheer the politicallyminded woman. The action of the play is dated 1970 or thereabouts, and if women are to sit high up in offic6, according to Mr. Shaw in his play, they will sit in academic gowns with mortar boards, or black velvet coats with gaiters and gold epaulettes. So Miss Edna Herrick, who played the part of the Powermistress-General, Lysistrata, who was formerly a schoolmistress and warned "no man to attempt to browbeat her," wore her academic gown over a bright red frock. As the PostmistreseGeneral (who got the giggles) Misa Helen Seabrook, wore a black velvet tailed coat trimmed with silver buttons, a short black satin skirt and carried a three-cornered hat trimmed with white ostrich feathers. Miss Althea Parker played the part of the queen, and wore a frock of black crepe de chine with deep yoke and sleeves of ivory georgette. Aβ Alice, Princess Royal, Miss Lorna Reyburn, was in a frock of striped green, brown and beige crepe de chine. Among those noticed in the audience were Lady Sinclair Lockhart, and Mesdames Eisdall Moore, M. M. McCallum, Stratten, H. W. Wilson, Arnold Goodwin, Brittain, Varley Hudson, C. M. Croft, Cahill, Hilliard, Moffitt, W. Cocker, G. C. Lyttelton, Pirns, N. Watson; Misses E. Rae, M. Cousins, M. Drysdale, Taylor, G. Williams, Ysoliiide and Monica McVeagh, P. Gash, Pirns and C. and M. Colegrove. The selling of programmes was jn the hands of Mrs. J. Swan, and assisting her were Mesdames Humphrey Clarke and D. McGregor, and Misses Una Moore, Noni Wright, Linda de Renzy and Rae Gurr.