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DRAMA SOCIETY.

PLAY IVY MONKHOISK. • • Kirst Blood. ' » vtirv modern pla.v by Allan .MonMiou?c, -.vat chosen for r«siding by members at tho meeting of th« Canterbury College Drama Society in the Ijittle Theatre last night. The play, a xourp.ct one, was set in ;i Laucashiro \.'o;vviiigtowu, and w;ts written at tlie ond of the war to (Inscribe probable situations which wtra likely to ariso in the immediate "future. No j'tich situations certainly dill arise, but tue story depicts iu nn amusing manner the probloms and difficulties of the actual present, and then ends tmddvn'y »; itli a vory tragic turn.

,Lu the t* vo flAiai 1 lea* rej-ro-sent diiTirout nidea of a social mid industrial dispute. Tho Livsey family arc the prototypes of a dissatisfied working class, and the titotte are a typical rich anil titled fuimly. Sir Samuel tjtott (K. K. Cook) s«t.>ks his own snlt'advanevment even when strikes aiuoug Uis employees are threatening, bat his s>un Lionel (O. .1. Wheeler) holtin sympathies uith tho poor. Lady Stott (Mips Valerie Ton nun t) has engaged as a inaitl a girl from tho mills, Vhyllis Livsey (Miss iJorotliy Magluness), who had previously been slightly injured in a motorinr accident by Lionel, imd whose home Lionel nad visited. Phyllis's admirer, Tom Uden (A. J. Kuyraer), an out-au-out revolutionary, finds that jealousy of Lionel Stott is added to bla already violent hatred of the Stott family. Phyllls's brother Jack (It. M. Young) is a follower of Bdon's crowd of rioters, against tho .very strong wishes of Uia fattier and mother (Miss Winifred Smith and G, A. Wortlilngton). As tho result of an attack by rioters on the Stott home. Phyllis is shot dead while trying to protect Lionel, who also subsequently succumbs as the result of injuries received.

Next week another evening of one-eci plays will be pitesmted in accordance with tho Society's programme of staging fully-pro-duced plays at every alternate meeting throughout the session.- Those selected for next Wednesday are "Pan in Pimlico." by Helen Simpson, and " Cloud-break." by A. O. Roberts.

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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20574, 16 June 1932, Page 5

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DRAMA SOCIETY. Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20574, 16 June 1932, Page 5

DRAMA SOCIETY. Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20574, 16 June 1932, Page 5

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