HUTT HIGH SCHOOL

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1933, Page 12

HUTT HIGH SCHOOL

AN EXCELLENT CONCERT One of the outstanding concerts of the year at Lower Hutt is the annual effort of the Hutt Valley.High School pupils, and the high standard of previous years ■was well maintained last evening, when a particularly enjoyable programme was given to. an appreciative audience, which filled King George Theatre. Many of the items were original, and the whole concert reflects great credit on both the pupils and the staff, and especially Mr. G. A. McNaught, who acted as stage manager. The main item was the production 01 an abridged version of Sheridan's comedy, "The Rivals." The play was excellently staged, the eighteenth century dresses being a special feature and the various characters well sustained, Ronald Meek as Sir Anthony Absolute and Juliet Adams as Miss Lydia Languish being outstanding. The others characters were:—B, Le Pine as Captain Absolute, N. Stace as Bob Acres', F. Dahl, Absolute's servant, Elaine Armstrong as Mrs. Malaprop, W. Hutcheson as Acre's servant, R. Parsonson as Sir Lucius O'Trigger, and Marjorie Jones as Julia, Other items in the first half of the programme were Brahms's Hungarian March No. 5, by the school orchestra; topical songs, introducing well-known local celebrities, by the third and fourth form boys; and an original farce played by Messrs. Robertson, Benson, Leekie, and Oram, of the sixth form. The second half opened with songs by the third and fourth commercial forms. Ronald Meek (the school magician) gave a mystifying exhibition in conjuring, which I received an encore,1 the senior girls danced a minuet, the junior girls a Mexican polka, the intermediate girls gave a bar-bell exhibition, and the senior and junior boys a drill exhibition.