NATIONAL DRAMA FESTIVAL

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28223, 11 March 1957, Page 2

NATIONAL DRAMA FESTIVAL

LEAGUE COUNCIL’S DECISION

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 10. keen New Zealand festival, of ™J?fays on a national and provincial level was proposed at the annual conference of the Drama ; League’s national council, and it ’ was decided to plan a play-writing competition to be judged by a British critic, Mr J. C. Trewin. The conference also agreed to the printing of a volume of New ’ Zealand-written plays and decided to apply to the State Literary Fund for assistance. Prompted by the success of last year’s playwrights’ school at Wallis House, Lower Hutt, the conference decided to hold a simi--1 lar school this year during Queen’s ■ Birthday week-end. It was hoped ■ that the school would result in • the formation of a New Zealand ' Playwrights’ Association. The conference also agreed to ’ the formation of a New Zealand ’ branch of the English Adjudica- ’ tors’ Guild. ; HOUSE FOR BIRTHDAY PRESENT ’ (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) ; LOS ANGELES, March 9. I The 400.000-dollar house which • Barbara Hutton, one of the world's • richest women, gave to her son, I Lance Reventlow, for his twenty- ’ first birthday last month has no living-room. • But it has an indoor-outdoor : swimming pool, a high fidelity ’ playing system which relays music ’ throughout the house. This cost ■ 10.000 dollars. » It has an electronic kitchen and • a massive Roman bath. The other rooms are a den, play- [ room, dining-room, kitchen with » breakfast area, and two bedrooms.