SCHOOL OF DRAMA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 10

SCHOOL OF DRAMA

Programme for Havelock The British Drama League’s school to be held at Havelock North will open with the taking of auditions at 7.30 o’clock on the evening of Monday, May 11. The first day’s work will commence in earnest on Tuesday tit 9.30 a.m. The programme will follow a mere or less similar rrutine each dhy fur the iemainder of the ween. From 9.30 to 10.30 each day rehearsals will be taken by Mr Latham, who will control section 1., and by Miss Blake, who will control section IL After an interval for tea and bisctiitSj periods will be devoted to mime and movement, ahd to speech trailing. Miss Loe will take section A and Miss McKenzie serf ion B. Work will be resumed after the lunch interval each day at 1.30, when Miss Blake and Mr Latham will again take rehearsals. On Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., Mr Latham will give a lecture. On Saturday afternoon Miss McKenzie will take the whole school in ehorat verse-speaking. The remain ler of the afternoons will be devoted to training in the nrt of movement to the spoken word, Miss Loe and Miss McKenzie being the speakers. Various lectures wil] be given at the evening sessions, commencing at 8 o’clock. The subjects and the speakers will be:— Elizabethan and Modern Poetry Compared, and Choral Speaking of all Kinds, Miss McKenzie. Stage Management, Make Up, Acting Exercises, Miss Loe. Advanced Production, Miss Blake. Some Faults and How to Cure Them, Mr Latham. On Sunday evening a religious lecture-recital will be given. Entries for the school have been received from as far south as Christ church and all the areas of the North Island Will be represented. As the closing date fur the enrolment for the school falls on Ahzac Day, entries received next week will be accepted. As time rolls on from year tn year, Lite’s best is lived and age draws near ; All else hut health grows stale and flat, Till nothing matters much but that. The chronic forms of cough and cold, Afflict and irritate the old—'Tis then for ease of throat and chest That Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure i best