ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 18 September 1933, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“THE BEST PEOPLE.”

The comedy, “The Best People,” which will be staged by the Palmerston North Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 21st, 22nd and 23rd instant, is a modern play dealing with a problem which is as old as civilisation, but the solution of which is always elusive and therefore ever new. It concerns the efforts of “The Best People” to conserve the future of their family and to maintain the traditions of the established order. All their schemes go awry. The son Bertie falls in love with a chorus girl and the daughter Marion wishes to associate her future with a chauffeur. The horror with which Mr and Mrs Lennox and Mr George Grafton regard these complications may be imagined, but the authors of this comedy have pictured the emotion of the various characters in a particularly palatable manner. The story points a valuable moral, but it does not attempt to provide a solution except the usual “happy ever after” ending. It gives food for considerable discussion of a serious nature, because it is held by Mrs Lennox that the “classes” (in England) cannot intermarry with success. Her people are, of course, “The Best People,” and it is amusing to note that the. impression that her children may not be in the right class for, say, Lord Rockmere, does not even occur to Mrs Edward Lennox. The subject is attacked in a refreshing manner, and the play abounds with clever characterisation and dialogue. The box plan for hon. members preferential booking opened to-day at the Central Booking Office. Popular prices are being charged and it is confidently anticipated that the society will have 'oven greater success with the current production than was achieved by its previous efforts in “Interference,” “The Naughty Wife,” “Judy,” and “Come Out of the Kitchen.”