JUNIOR GIRLS' COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1923, Page 3

JUNIOR GIRLS' COLLEGE

The pupils of the Junior Girls' College-, gave a delightful little' play last Friday evening in St. Andrew's Hall. The play, entitled " The Moonland Princess," was written by one of the girls, Peggy Macdonald, and showed decided originality and unsual depth of thought in one so young. It opens on the iorest, long ago, before moonlight has reached the earth, and a lonely oak longs for a companion. In the Moonland Palace the Princess also is lonely; she sends her moonbeams to earth, in which maaner the lives of the oak tree and the elves of the forest are transfigured, and the Princess finds happiness. Peggy Macdonald took the part of the Oak and Tat Buckley of the Princess, and both girls acted prettily. Evening, mistg, moonbeams, fays, and elves were parts all filled characteristically. The stage was tastefully decorated, with misty effects in heliotrope qverahadowing the greenery of the forest. Other items on the programme were a pianoforte solo by Miss Kathleen Ward, three recitations by pupils of Wellington Girls' College, and several songs, dances, and pianoforte solos by pupils of the school. A collection in aid of prize funds and Dr. Barnardo's Home was made, and sweet* and programmes were sold. The artistic programme covers were chiefly tne -work of one of the senior pupil*.