REPERTORY SOCIAL

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 176, 20 April 1940, Page 6

REPERTORY SOCIAL

Diverting Programme At First Evening Of Year

About 50 members of the Wellington Repertory Theatre look part in the programme at the society's first social for 19-10, held last night in St. Francis Hall. The number of performers actively participating was greater than ever previously assembled and a varied programme of unusual interest. was presented. Included in the programme was an original one-act play, “Soundings,” written by a member, Mr. F. Al. Renner; items by the Repertory Concert Party; and “Winsome Winnie,” one of the Stephen Leacock nonsense novels, dramatized by V. C. ClintonBaddeley. The setting of the first play, “Soundings,” was on the main deck of the Frisco Lassie, somewhere in the Doldrums. The cast comprised Messrs. James Crawford, N. V. Wot ton, Ernest Le Grove, Bernard Withers, Edgar Kain, and the author who directed the play/ The concert flirty under the direction of Mr. Eric Harison, gave excerpts from the dozen or so concert programmes which have been given for members of the forces at Treutham, AVeraroa and elsewhere. Numbers included “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,” ~“Ono Day When We Were Young,” “Deep Purple,” and “Honolulu,” ail performers joining in the finale. The other play, “Winsome Winnie,” was an old-time melodrama, a burlesque three-act romance, produced by Mr. G. H. A. Swan. Parts were taken by Mrs. P. AL Murray, Misses Lesley Jackson. Ngaire Thomson, Messrs. AV. F. C. Balhain. Charles Johnston, Greville Wiggs, L. T. Maule, Arthur Ashley Jones. The first act took place in Mr. Bonehead’s office, the second in Winifred's lodging in a humble part of London, and the last in Muddienut Chase.

At the conclusion of the programme supper was served and dancing to the music of a dance orchestra concluded the evening. Incidental music was played by Mrs. C. McDonald, Misses Ormi Reid and Olga Burton. Hostesses for the evening were Miss Constance Morice, assisted by Mrs. E. E. Le Grove, and Misses Ailsa Newton, Dorothy Barr, Nola Hammond and Yvonne Holmes.

Among The Audience.

Among those in the audience were Mrs. E. W. G. Cobridge, Miss Mollie Coleridge, Mr. and Mrs. H. Ivatt Graves, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. G. TI. A. Swan, Mrs. du Chateau, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. C. Deuber, Dr. and Mrs. C. Morice, Mrs. Knox Gilmer, Mr. and Mrs. Pittendrigh, Madame Bligh, Misses I. and C. Smythson, Mr. and Mrs. AV. E. Lavelle, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Le Grove,. Mr. and Mrs. Perry, Mrs. Lundins, Mrs. David, son and Miss Davidson, Dr. and Mrs. P. Benham, Miss Pam Benham, Miss Florence Penney, Mrs. E. T. Spidy. Miss Irene Spidy, Mr. and Mrs. AV. Alurie, Miss Patricia Gledhill, Miss Mollie Brown. Mr. and Mrs. H. Bowl’., Mr. and .Mrs. F. N. R. Meadows, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Bennie, Mrs. L. V. Fisher, Mrs. Macdonald. Miss Ruth Skerman, Miss Hazel Robinson, Mrs. A. M. Christophers, Miss Doreen Kersley, Mrs. Ross, Mr. find Mrs. P. N. 11. Macdonald, Miss Betty Sanderson, Misses Tustin. .Mrs. J. Barnett, Mr. Colin Davidson. Mr. R. Morpeth, Miss Mollie Cook, Miss Dorothy Buck, Mr. Eric Lawson, Mr. lan Robertson, Mr. W. 0. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. R. Gilkison. Miss Yvonne Holmes., Mr. I. E. Ennis, Miss Lois Goldsmith, Mr. and Mrs. N. Ainslie, Mr. Lindsay Arlow, Dr. and Mrs. D. Stewart.