Ngaio Marsh
“False Scent,” a thriller by Ngaio Marsh, which she adapted for the stage in collaboration with Eileen Mackay. is expected to come to a West End theatre in London early next year. Miss Marsh and Miss Mackay were “very pleased" with its recent production in Worthing, Sussex, when a local repertory company played it to full houses. “Everything went very well, and there is now some talk of its being trans, lated into French,” said Miss Marsh. She is due to reach Wellington on New Year’s Day in the Ceramic and will go to Christchurch where she is to give the MacMillan Brown lectures at the University of Canterbury, probably in February. Miss Marsh also expects to work with the Wellington composer, David Farquhar, who wants to produce an opera for children from her play “A Unicorn for Christmas." —London November 22.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29679, 24 November 1961, Page 12
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