UNIVERSITY EXTRAVAGANZA.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 7

UNIVERSITY EXTRAVAGANZA.

The cnsemblo work on Iho specially enforced will" open Tt "tho Town ifan''' I'"fo'-iiiciit." and will continue on Monday and Tuesday nights. Many are the topical verses set to catchy melodies and, under the guidance of Mr. \V. 11. Stainton. who has composed many or tho airs, the musical side of tho production promises to be a pleasing feature. Humour abounds. Tho plot is suitably ridiculous. In order to overthrow "CO.", whose beauty has hypnotised Cwkiefond, the 1!>29 committee plot to steal tho Tlunket cow from Iho Jlessy Agricultural College on Iho Feast of Saint Sidcy. Tlie cow escapes, bursts in upon the' festivities, and is killed by G.G. The plotters slir up Ihe cockles and sccuro Iho banishment of 0 G In tho second Act. G.O. is taken out to sea on the 11.M.V. battleship Villemup and court-mar-tiallcd. The captain's daughter, iufa'.ualed by nim, precipitates mutters by her iiid'rveiitloii. I'iit Zano Criipcjiilcc and his Hum l'inilcs hold UP Ihe. battleship and G.G. escapes. In the third act C.C. reaches Samboa in time fur tho cannibal feast "of the Meow, .md inljtwatcs in turn Ilic clilcfs daughter, and the Gcncraless of tho Bed Army, wlio wrangle as tn which shall marry him. The annexation of Samboa by a naval party brings the captain's daughter upon Iho srenc. and the three women reach a most alarming decision. G.G. however, now administrator of Samboa, finds the solution of his difficulties in a very simple Imperial expedient. The box plan is open at. the