DRAMA LEAGUE FESTIVAL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 25 September 1933, Page 7

DRAMA LEAGUE FESTIVAL

\ NATIONAL AWARDS MADE

‘THE TOUCHSTONE’ ’ BROADCAST

The final presentations of one-act-plays in the national festival of community drama under the auspices of the British Drama League were made m Wellington on Saturday evening in the presence of Their Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe. The awards of the adjudicators, the Rev. W. A. Constable. M.A., Messrs \V. S. Wauchop and L. du Chateau, were as follows: “Kestrel Edge,” presented by the “Nameless Group,” Christchurch, first, and “A Long Christmas Dinner,” by “The Readers," Tima.ru, second. “The Sisters’ Tragedy,” Elan Dramatic Club, Auckland, came third, and “The Wonderful Son,” by the Okari Readers’ A team, fourth. The South Taranaki group was represented at the festival by the Hawera Dramatic Club players, who won the local “area” competition with the preentation of “The Touchstone.” This play, of which Mrs V. Targuse is author, was placed equal first with “Fear,” also by the same author, in a competition conducted recently by the British Drama League for the best play by a New Zealand author. Last evening the Hawera players presented “The Touchstone” in a broadcast from the 2\ 7 A studio. The characters in the play were represented by the following: Jim McLean (farmer), Mr AY 1 . G. Simpson; Kate (his wife), Mrs Christina Twaddle; Geoffrey Balfour, Mr M. I. Jones; Nellie (his wife), Mrs Hetie Walker; Mitchell (another farmer). Mr R. R. Rees; and Peata (elderly Maori woman) Miss M. E. Quin.