CANTERBURY REPERTORY SOCIETY

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21436, 30 March 1935, Page 7

CANTERBURY REPERTORY SOCIETY

PRESENTATION OF "DR. KNOCK" To-night, in the Radiant Hall, Kilmore street, the Canterbury Repertory Society will stage the first of its 1935 series of productions. The play selected for the opening of the season is a translation of a brilliant French comedy by Jules Romains, entitled "Dr. Knock." It deals with the introduction by a young doctor of advanced medical science into a remote French village in place of the previous doctor's rather unscientific treatment. The part of Dr. Knock, which is taken by Mr W. B. Harris, provides this player with an excellent acting opportunity, of which he takes fullest advantage. The part demands his presence on the stage almost throughout the length of the three acts, and it is anticipated that Mr Harris's interpretation will be acclaimed as one of the outstanding performances of the society. A strong cast has been selected to support the principal, and although their parts are smaller from the acting

point of view, tiiey are in almost every case very definite characters that require most careful interpretation. They are played by Misses Nonie Enright, Lucy Cowan, Nance Alexander, Barbara Griffiths, Elsie Waite, and Peggy Maffey. and Messrs T. W. Tothill. Selwyn Davies, H. G. Cotterill, G. S. Salter, W. F. Slack, C. H. Davies, C. W. Packer-Doust. and Norman Harrison. Miss Kiore King, who was previously so successful with the society, has returned to Christchurch to produce the play. The usual season of three nights will be played, and the box plan will open at the society's rooms, 15 Bedford row, this morning.