GIRL GUIDE GAIETIES

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 266, 7 August 1934, Page 5

GIRL GUIDE GAIETIES

Enjoyable Entertainment

A most successful entertainment was given in the Concert Chamber on Saturday evening by the 'Wellington South Girl Guide companies, who are to be congratulated on achieving a most original performance. The hall was packed with an enthusiastic and appreciative audience. The first part of the programme was the dramatisation of the story, of the Girl Guide movement. Act 1 showed the Boy Scouts in 1909 preparing fo>a great rally at Crystal Palace, London, and parading before some girls who were most dissatisfied with their lot, and, in spite of the scorn of the Scouts, determined to be Girl Scouts, and show the boys what they could do. They secured scout uniforms, and grasping broom sticks marched off to the Scouts’ rally, nothing daunted in spite of the fact that one girl found it impossible to remove the broom from her stick. The next scene showed the boys’ indignation at the girls coming to their rally, but the girls were trium: pliant, because Sir Robert Badett Powell had inspected them ami promised to do something for them. A photograph of thejirst Girl Scouts being taken completed this act. Brocks and hats of the period were worn, and added much to the amusement. Act 2: Guides, as they were now called, were seen coming home from .a day’s hike, and relating incidents of what had happened. Scene 2 showed the Guides ready for bed, and one of their number telling a ghost story. Act 3 was an endeavour to show how the Guides of England and Scotland helped during 1914-1918 by collecting waste paper, weeding hospital gardens, helping cooks at hospitals, carrying dispatchse for the Red Cross Society, and so on. '

Act 4 wns nn everyday scene of a young recruit left at home with a mischievous younger brother and two babies who constantly get into trouble. Into this come the recruit’s patrol leader and second, who lend a hand in getting things straight and binding up cuts, etc. .Scene 2 stresses the fact that Guides are encouraged to love Nature and to find out as much as possible for themselves.

Act 5 gives , a suggestion of what the future of guiding may be. There were a squad of Air Guides, 1949, ready to take off to. an air pageant, and some very envious little boys wishing they could do that too, but being promptly told that it takes girls to do things like that, and that boys would be no use at all. The second half was more of a concert programme, the items meeting with great success, and encores being frequent. The singing by massed Guides from 12 different companies was particularly good. The committee responsible for writing and producing the first half consisted of Miss Morton, district Commissioner, Miss Phillips, district Captain, Mrs. Key, Mrs. Miller, and Miss Doreen Coulter. The following also assisted: —Mr. Charles Levin, as stage manager; Mr. IV. Turnbull, electrician ; Messrs. Wilson, Mace and Hale, effects; and Mr. E. W. Sharp, accompanist.