AMATEUR DRAMA

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 7

AMATEUR DRAMA

Navy League Productions THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS To a crowded audience in the Tittle theatre at the Pioneer Club, members of the junior .branch of . the Navy League presented on Saturday evening three one-act plays. They were well enacted by casts numbering altogether, twentythree players, some more experienced than others, but all imbued with the right enthusiasm and the ability to carry off their parts with success. The, first play was “The Bridge Party,” by Judith Purdy Williams. The scene was a suburban drawingroom in Wellington, and it ,was produced by Miss Betty Menard. In the second play; “ ’Op-o-Me-Thumb,” by Frederick Fenn and Bichard Price, and produced by Miss Mona Brien, the scene shifted to a workroom in a Soho laundry, and in the third, “Lantern Light,” by Manie Inglis, it- returned to a small cottage in New Zealand. The producer was Miss Marjorie Willcocks. 1 The players were as follow :■ — “The Bridge Party”: Betty Jolies, Annette Strickland, Betty Olphert, Stella ' Paul. Lola 1 Thompson, Molly Thompson, Nola Cable, Margaret Munro, Noeline Crammond, Audrey Davis, and Margaret Loughnan. ’Op-o-Me-Tbump’: Barbara Taylor, Irene Spidy, Mona Brien, X’at Brown, Doris Hussey, and W. J. Mountjoy, jun. "‘Lantern' Light”: Suzanne Clarkson, Tiora Meadows, Nell Kendall, C. Edgar, Ida Gustdfsen, and Rita .Thomson.