“QUALITY STREET.”

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 264, 6 October 1936, Page 2

“QUALITY STREET.”

Although the average English history book contrives to make all its .pages proud reading for English boys and girls, there are only two periods of English history which arc completely and gloriously triumphant—the age of Elizabeth and the Regency. There are many intelligent people who look back to the Regency as a model for tho art of living, when comfort and elegance were the joint deities of home life, before tho Victorians thought to increase comfort by slaying elegance. “Quality Street,” which is being presented by the Little Thoatro Society for a three nights’ season at the Opera House, commencing to-morrow evening, is from the pen of the great Sir J. M. Barrie (author of “Peter Pan”) and it is said to reproduce accurately the period of the Regency. A particularly strong cast has been engaged for a long period in perfecting the production, which is in tho capable hands of Mrs S. T. Bristow. Among those taking part are Misses P. Lower (Phoebe), J. Maunder (Susan), E. Ashby, J. Ramsay, J. Thompson, J. Bristow, L. P’Ath and V. Floyd, and Messrs R. Allison (Captain Brown). B. Louisson (Ensign Blades), R. Stevenson (Lieut. Spicer). The play is in four acts and concerns the vieissitudss of Misses Phoebe and Susan Throssel. Tho fracking and furnishings are accurate to the period which is represented. A feature of tho performance will be the delightful musical programme arranged by Miss Moan Dean, wherein Miss Dean and either Miss C. Vickery or Mr F. Bull render simultaneously on two pianos such numbers as Beethoven’s “Minuet in G” and Boccharini’s “Minuet,” Mozart’s “Allegro” and “Arie” and “Schon Rcsmarm” by Kricslcr. The box plans arc at Messrs Collinson and Cunninghame’s.