New Zealander In Old Vic Company

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23269, 11 February 1939, Page 16 (Supplement)

New Zealander In Old Vic Company

MEDITERRANEAN TOUR [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Jan. 26 fR H. E. CARTER, formerly v I of Auckland and Timaru, XVA. jj ag for some time travelling on the Continent. He was in Germany for about six w ee«s, then in Czecho-Slovakia and Hungry. He was in Sudetenland when the Germans were marching into the Fifth Zone. He felt he was too popular in Czecho-Slovakia, for he always spoke German, and J"; was believed to he a German. For this reason, people in shops eithe took no notice of him, or refnsed to serve him. ]\jr Carter's knowledge of languages _io ' speaks French, German and Italian-has been partly responsible for L inclusion in the Old V.C Company which is about to leave for Port,,gal, Italy K«ypt and Greece, etc., under. tl,c aegis' of the British Council, of which Lord Lloyd is president. Members of Company Mr. Carter, as people in New Zealand know, has been a keen actor in repertory. During the coming tour he will have minor parts to play and he will act as interpreter for the when this is required. ~ Plavs to be staged include Hamlet, "The Rivals," "Trelawny of the Wells " "Man and Superman, 1 Have Been Here Before," "Libel, and "Viceroy Sarah." . In the company there will be Cnrigwen Lewis, Cathleen Nesbitt, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quale, Lejvis Casson and Andrew Cruickshank. Bo hearsals are taking place under Tyrone Guthrie, Esme Church and Lewis Casson in different theatres in the West 1 "j he tour was originally intended for Egypt, whose Government extended an invitation. One of the plays m the repertory, "Libel," .is going to be given in Egypt exclusively, because the play is the set book for English reading in the Egyptian schools. Former Old Vic Tour

The company will be away till May, and is taking all its own scenery and properties. . , , . , Apart from the British contingent there are Robert Christie and Meg Townsend from Canada; Stanley Hudebrandt, of Australia; Harold Carter, from New Zealand; and Siegfried Maynard and Basil Coleman, from South Africa. . It may be recalled that in 1927, "when Lord Lloyd was High Commissioner for Egypt, an Old Vic Company went out with Bobert Atkins in charge, doing the whole of Shakespeare's plavs. Marie Xev played all the leads. r lhe tour proved a great success.