WELLINGTON REPERTORY THEATRE.
Tonight at the Town Hall Concert Chamber the Wellington Repertory Theatre will commence a five nights' season of "Pride and Prejudice," a sentimental comedy based on Jane Austen's famous novel. London critics say that Miss Helen Jerome has done her work well and has given an adaptation which outrivals Barrie's "Quality 'Street" with its sparkling wit and charming sentiment. Mr. W. S. Wauchop is the producer, and he has great scope in settings and costumes, there being some fifty of the latter required for the production. Miss Shotlander is wardrobe mistress and Miss Ailsa Newton has charge ol properties. The cast .includes Misses "Irene Wilson, Mollie Brown, Vivienne Tait, Lesley Jackson, Mary Butler, Ngaire Horton, Moya Hempton, Geraldine Litchfield, Mollie Best, Mesdames Frank Horton, G. E. Hunter, and Lewis Campbell, Messrs. G. H. A. Swan, E. C. Johnston, W. F. C. Balham, Warren Toogood, Jasper Baldwin, R. J. Larkin, lan Robertson, and L. C. Rossiter. The box plans, which are filling rapidly, are at the D.I.G.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 95, 19 October 1937, Page 5
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