COLLEGE DRAMA SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20498, 17 March 1932, Page 16

COLLEGE DRAMA SOCIETY.

ANNUAL MEETING. The twelfth annual general meeting of the Canterbury College Drama Society was held in the Little Theatre last night, when Mr G. A. AVorthington occupied the chair. Mis 9 Dorothy Maginnesa, secretary of the Society, presented the annual report. Mention was made of the highly successful luncheon held in honour of Mr Allan Wilkie last year, and it was lamented that members showed such apathy on tne occasions of ordinary meetings. As a direct result of the apparent lack of interest of members last year, only one play could be produced, but this year the spirit and enthusiasm of those interested in the Society was so much improved that already a course of twentyseven plays had been planned, to include at least one full-length play for public production M v>as the custom three or four years ago. The balance-sheet showed a satisfactory credit balance of over i' 29.

Nominations for the exact number of positions on the committee having been received previously, and no further names being forthcoming, the following were elected without recourse to a ballot. During the absence Professor J Shelley in America, the position of official producer is being filled by the assistant producer, Miss Valerie Tennent, tut Professor Shelley s association with the Society he founded has been 'retained "by making him patron. The official list isPatron, Professor 3. Shelley; president, Dr. Helen Simpson; vice-presidents. Dr. D. Broadhead, Mrs C. Chilton, Misa IC M. Oresson, Dr. J. Hi»ht, Miss Kiore King, Mrs R. R. D. Millignn, Professor L. G. Pocock, Professor F. Sinclaire, Messrs A K. Anderson, R. ,J. Rjcliards, J. H. K. Schroder, P. A. Shurrock, anrl the Hon. G. J. Smith; producer, Mxss Valerie Tennent; secretarv, Miss Dorothy Maginness; treasurer, Mr G. A, oi"thyigton * committee, Mis?©s Graro Burns, Joyce Osmond-Smith, anc] Mollv Wil*on. snd Me..»rs R. A. H. Burton, "A. S. Prime, and H. W. Turner.

TWO ONE-ACT PLAYS. The second evening of one-act plays by the Canterbury College Drama Society was hc-ld last night in the Littlo Theatre, before a large audience. The firpt play, a melodrama called "Wind o' the Moors" by h. <!<t Garde Peach, was produced by Miss Dorothy Maginness, and the other, ft delightful comedy, "Fame and tho Poet," in the inimitable stylo o£ Lord Dunsany, was

1 presented under the supervision of Miss Valerie Tonnent. "Wind o" the Moors" is a grim story of the Scottish highlands, in which the leading parts werePtaken by Mr A. S. Prime, Miss I'orothy Ma-rinneso, and Mr W. J. A. Brittrrden. All acquitted themselves well in their parts "Fame and the Poet" was a delightful example of successful stage nnti-climax. De J'ovcs, a London poet (Mr \V. B. Harris), although ridiculed by his matter-of-fact friend I'rattle (Mr J. Young), writes sonnets and offers them before his altar to Fame. The t-oddess (Miss Valerie Tenncnt), a perfect Greek statue in appearance, descends from her pedestal and acclaims the poet—in outrageous Yankee slang and accent! It was an excellent performance. s