WELLINGTON REPERTORY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 20

WELLINGTON REPERTORY

Including children and "extra" ladies ■an'l gentlemen about-40 people .will, be engaged in the forthcoming production of Sir James Barries romantic comedy "Quality Street," which the Wellington Repertory ■Theatre is to stage for a season of seven nights and one matinee in the Town Hall Concert Chamber at the end of tne 'month. Mollie Brown is cast for the part of Phoebe Throssel and Coralie Smythson for her sister Susan; Algernon Deuber is the dashing Valentine Brown, and Alan Howard the "quizzing" Ensign Blades "Hher principal parts include W. F. C. Balham as the "Old Soldier"; W. O. Phillips, a gallant; L. D. Webster, the recruiting sergeant; Mabel Gray, Miss Willoughby;' Gwennyth Bearsley, Miss Fanny; Dulcie Wboldridge, Miss Henrietta Turnbull; Grace Buchanan, Patty; Donalda Woodward, Harriett; W. D, Barhett, Lieutenant Spicer; Margaret. Ogilyy, Miss Charlotte Parrat- Barbara Basham* Isabella; " Master Michael 'Gilkison, Georgy Smith; arid Mastei lan Murdoch, Arthur Wellesley Tomson, Leo dv Chateau is producing the play; Pauline Shotlander is, as usual, supervising the making of the frocks and costumes,; Mrs. W. A. Martin is ia charge of the properties, and Margaret Vallance the prompt corner. Colin Davidson is the stage manager, and the sets, built by W. G.Johnstone, hayq been painW by the well-known artist W. G. Conroy. The time of the action of the play is during the stirring days of the Napoleonic wars. The scene is a small country town in Scotland. While it has all the charm of a costume play, it is the character of the^Jwo sisters that gives the play its ipeculiar fragrance, as of an old-fashioned garden.