HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 3

HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT.

ENTERTAINMENT AT NEW BRIGHTON. ! The committee and staff of the New Brighton District High School launched a new venture very successfully last evening, when for the first time an entertainment was given by the pupils of the secondary department in the Premier Theatre. Mr W. M. Sexton, chairman of the school committee, said that the secondary department was shaping well, and that the staff were very enthusiastic. It was hoped to hold further entertainments of the kind, as they were highly educative. On behalf of the committee, he thanked the St. Faith's Church people for the use of costumes and gear, the Municipal Electricity Department for lighting effects, Mr Gladstone Hill for the use of the theatre, Mr X. W. Hudson for taking charge of the box office, and Mrs I. M. Jack*;on for officiating at the piano. During the evening, Miss K. J. Hendrie (secondary school mistress) was presented with an eversharp pencil by Douglas Cocks, on behalf fo the performers, whom she had spent so much time in training. The programme consisted of two playlets, which were well staged, costHPie(?' anc * acted, the casts being: In "Robin Hood":—B. Hawley ("Robin Hood), E. Seales (The Pedlar), E. Crysell (Little John), M. Fraser (Friar Tuck), W. Hastings (an Outlaw), R. ( j° wa n (another Outlaw), R. Queree (Sheriff's Man), B. Dunbar (Fairy). L. Hay (The Sheriff), A. Cocks (The Ballad Singer), Ralph Parker (Maid Marion).

characters in the second playlet. The House with the Twisty Windows," were N. Angel (James Roger, K.C.), D Cocks (Charles Clive), J. Jackson (Teresa, Lady Ponting), R. Fowler (Heather Sorrell), M. Rainey (Anne oorrell), H. Leadley (Derrick Moore), and W. Mackrell (Stefan). Th® prologue and a recitation by Daphne Lye were well received, and the Song of Hope," by High School girls, and "Morning Invitation," by the Girls High School, were most charmingly rendered.

Rose Fowler sang "To a Miniature" with, excellent taste. _