WELLINGTON PLAYERS.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 17, 18 September 1930, Page 6

WELLINGTON PLAYERS.

The Wellington Piaycrs' coming production in St. James's Hall on Friday, 26th. inst, includes two plays of widely different character, "Everyman," and Trackerary>s "Rose and the Ring. " In. "Everyman" the Wellingtton Players have chosen a world-fiamio-us play, as famous in its way as " HamiLet.'' It is the best known of all the morality plays for whicih Eng'listli drama, of the iifteenth cemtury is so reanarlaaljle. It seeks to show nieu and women how to live so • that when death comes tihey may not fear that '{Mighty Messenger ' In " Everymmn,' J the hero, typifying all mankind, is seen on his journey through life after G-od has sent Death to warn him "a sti-aigiit aceotint of >all his doings will bo called for.' ' Everyman, careless and rather oallous, goes from one friend to .another for help and companionship in his great task, baiit all in turn desert him —all, except his "Good Becdes"; but he learns on his journey 'through life to judge between the true and the false, and wheii he dies his sorrows .are over and his mind serene and fii'll of a great (hope. Elizaibeth Blake, who produces, has cut the play and it now lasts half an hour. "The Rose and the Ring" is delightful nonsense; it is Thackeray at his liveliest, and makes very goodntempered fun of a great many different kinds of things; usurping monarches, revolC^ons, university edTioation, andfairies he .dexterously juiggles with and makes fun of them all. ''The Rose and the Ring" has a distinctly good plat; tihere. is the usurping king, his nephew the rightful Icing, a'"'rival prince, two princesses— one th-e spoilt child of fortune, the otihor and heroine, a little housemaid in her rival's home^—two magic gifts, the rose and the ring, an enterprising fairy a horrible old countess who has miaitriouonial designs on the hero, Prince Pigihio, the countess's unexpected hus iband, and various court ofiicials, all of whom, damce gaily about to Thackeray's piping. There are same new names among the players. Miss Jessica Andreas, who plays the name part in '' Everyman,'' and Mr. F. J. Jones, Who enters with spirit into the pant of H.R.H. Priaee Bulbo in "The Rose and the Ring," are two of them. Among former players the chief is Miss Beryl Earle, who plays Grood Deedes > witih. tender dignity, and later finds in Betsinda, Thackeray's lit£le heroine, scope for her growing experience. Elizabeth Blake, produces, In "Everyman," she plays Death, a part she Has played twice in London with Fiippi and Miss Edith Craig; and in "The Rose and the Ring" is "that old horror" the Countess Pruffanuff. —