HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1935, Page 15

HERE AND THERE

"The Fake." A line drama by Fredrick Lonsdale, "The Fake," was read by the Thespians at their meeting last night. The Little Theatre was crowded by an enthusiastic audience of members, who thoroughly enjoyed the splendid interpretation given by the cast. Members taking part were Victor S. Lloyd as "Ernest Stanton"; Vivienne Tait as "Mavis Stanton"; Myles F. E. Wright as the "Hon. Gerard Pillick"; Tiora Meadows as "Mrs. Stantoa"; Miss Frame as "Mrs. Pointer"; E. K. Render as "Hesketh Pointer"; Claude Wade as "Sir Thomas Moorgate"; Reg Larkin fis "Clifford Hope"; Norman Hannah as "Geoffrey Sands"; and Helen Sine! as the '•Parlourmaid." Stage directions were read by Gay Dean. The next play to be read by the Thespians will be "Hay Fever," by Noel Coward. A Reception. president and members of the Pioneer Club will hold a reception in honour of Miss Muriel Brunskill at ithe club on Thursday afternoon at half-past three. A very pleasant function is being arranged, and it is hoped that all members will take the opportunity of meeting the well-known and popular singer. Reception at "Otahuua." In the picturesque grounds of "Otahuna," Christchurch, far-iamed £or their beauty, many friends, at the weekend, enjoyed the hospitality of Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, who, assisted by Miss V. Hynes, held a very pleasant reception under perfect conditions, states "The Press." The visitors were welcomed by Sir Heaton Rhodes and Miss Hynes, the latter wearing a brown and beige check matalasse frock, a brown wool georgette coat, and a pink pandan hat banded with self-coloured ribbon. After admiring the view from the front of the house, where wide velvety lawns swept down to the lake, beyond which were fields of golden and cream daffodils, dancing in the breeze, ar.d a garden plot of big yellow and orange marigolds, the guests strolled through shady paths, to the daffodil garden, with its rows of choice blossoms, through the orchards, with fruit trees in bloom, and masses of primroses blooming beneath their sheltering branches. The flowering shrubs were looking their best, lemon and pink double cherry blossom, large camellia trees, almost covered with blooms, and bright red rhpdodendrons flaunting their beauty against the green background, were greatly admired, and much interest was shown in the daffodils and narcissi, thou-

sands of them, growing in wedgeshaped formation on a grassy hillside, beside belts of trees, beneath which flourished yellow primroses and wood hyacinth. The visitors were entertained at tea in a pretty dell in the garden.