ESPERANTO CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 20

ESPERANTO CLUB

The;weekly meeting of1 the Wellington Esperanto Club was held last Monday night; in the1-clubroom,. Nathan s Building, .Grey Street. Bertram Potts presided. - Greetings were receivedfffbm the'Hutt Valley. Esperanto Club. ■'■-,■Correspondence was .received from Esperanto clubs and .individual Esperantists. jn Wales, France, Russia. South : Africa, Spain, Poland, and Boliviai' Itwas announced that omcial greetings' had been sent to Esperanto clubs "in Estonia and .Japan. News was received that the worldfamousbook. "Koro" by_ the Italian author, Edmondo de Amicis, which hart been translated into several nationa languages and had been sold in several million copies, had appeared also in Esperanto.' The great Vienna Fair was contusing to use Esperanto, for publicity1-purposes and the. 1937 international exhibition had issued advertising material jn,*he way of Esperanto brochures and posters.. Mr. W. ti. Tooley, of Christchurch, brought greetings from 'the Christchurch Esperanto Club and the Whangarei Esperanto Club on his return from a northern trip The club extended greetings to Miss V. Fairweather, who was about to leave on a trip to England and the Continent. Classes were organised under the direction of experienced teachers, after which an entertaining programme was presented under the direction of Mr. Percy McCrae. The proceedings opened with a pianoforte solo, "Hungarian Rhapsody, No 6, played by Mr. E. Sharp. He later presented other items, including a waltz of his own composition. A sketch followed entitled 'Oni Demandis ia Patron- ("They asked Father"), an. original work of Mr. James Allan, the parts being taken by Misses Eve and Rose Webster, Beryl Gillies, and Messrs. D: Trim and J. W. p'Neill; Next came an original Esperanto playlet "La Sukcesa Operacio" 0 The Successful Operation"), written by Mr; Perce McCrae and presented by Mrs, P. Campbelli Vernon J. Leek, and Gordon Blong. The concluding iterrj was an Esperanto play, "Nemo Okazas, ("Nothing.Happens"), in which the following took :■■■ part:—Misses Florence Bennett and Beryl Gillies.-.-and Messrs. David Kirk, Perce, McCrae, Gordon Blong E. Barnsley, and J. Thomas. Mr. j R. Douglas Saunders was-stage manager. ■-. . . . . ' . |