LYTTELTON NEWS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21321, 14 November 1934, Page 17

LYTTELTON NEWS

HARBOUR LIGHT THEATRE "Up for the Derby," which will be screened at the Harbour Light Theatre for to-night only, is a laughter-pro-voking comedy starring Sydney Howard. "Karma," a charming romance of India featuring Devika Rani, is a supporting picture. A Fox Australian News shows the Waitaki hydro-electric works nearing completion. After to-night the theatre will be closed for a week for renovations, reopening on Wednesday next. Senior Free Places The following pupils of the Lyttelton District High School gained a senior free place by recommendation, contingent upon satisfactory progress and attendance to the end of the year:—Lesbert Beaumont, Margaret Duckworth, Gwendoline Duff/ Clarence Fowles, Violet Gardner, Alfred Large, Ross Louttit, Victor Macnaughton, Leslie Merrifield, Leslie Sales, and Kenneth Wilson. Successful Concert "The Dolls' House Party," an operetta, was successfully produced by the younger children of the Lyttelton Convent Schools at the Harbour Light Theatre last evening. Strikingly beautiful frocks were worn by the "dolls," that worn by Lorna Brooks, as Madame Pompadour, being worthy of special mention. A chorus of "gentlemen dolls," in which the smallest boys, each attired in immaculate dress suit, took part, caused admiration which gave way to unrestrained hilarity at the manner in which some of the youngsters handled their dainty partners in the dance, "Sir Roger de Coverley," many of the incidents being quite unrehearsed. Betty Loader, as the .hostess of the house party, had rather a strenuous part to play, but she sang and danced well. Little Mary Small gave quite a good characterisation as a "nigger doll," and her clever dance delighted the audience. A ballet of colleens gave a spirited Irish reel, and had to respond to an insistent recall. The ballet consisted of Betty Gallavin, Mary Fox, Brenda Denton, Peggy Brooks, Nora Small, Josie Couttie, Helen Boyd, and Helen Brocherie. Others in the cast were:—Oldfashioned dolls, Joan McGrath and Hilary Mahar; Snow White, Dorothy Hendry: Rose Red, Noeline Moir; Dutch dolls, Sylvia Brocherie, Noeline Robertson, Norma Gallavin, Cissie Couttie, and Eva Fowlds; wax dolls, June Elson, Fay Elson, Camille Donahoe, Ngaire Magill, Marie Collins, Kathleen Rooney, Noeline Fogarty. Patricia Quinri, and Gladys Miller; gentlemen, F. Boyd, Barry Holliss, Alfred Christmas, Dick Abbott, Jack Vincent, Lester Vincent, and Brian McCarthy; buttons, Hugh Small; Japanese dolls, Felice Rooney, Mary Manning, Margaret Christmas, Isobel Holliss, and Mary Mac Donald; Farmer Giles, Brian Magill; poachers, W. Currie and L. Sylvester; coachman, J. Boyd, chef, J. McCarthy. During intermissions several selections were played by the Convent Pupils' orchestra, consisting of Messrs H. McDonald, J. Partridge, J. Olsen, J. Dowell, L. Beaumont, Misses Florence Ramon and Jessie Gilray (violins), Miss Freda Moir ('cello), Mr W. Jeffries (cornet), and Mrs I. Donahoe (piano), leader.