“MASSKERADE”

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 June 1939, Page 8

“MASSKERADE”

STUDENTS’ CAPPING REYUE. For three nights only, next ’] Wednesday and Thursdti}. "Maeskerade. a scintillating extravaganza by the Massey College students, will be pra-ented at the Opera House as part of the annual Univerity rapping festivities. Catering for all tastes' this non-stop variety show is ill*tingnifihod for the careful attention which has been paid to the staging, costuming, music, chorus work, and gcncra.l of the programme. In planning Ma.-S; kcrade 1939,” entertainment plus has been the aim throughout. Bright music, snappy singing burly ballets, smart sketches, burlesque, satire, wit anil repartee are mixed elements of the rapidly changing progt ammo. Broad burlesque, catchy song?, superb melodrama and pungent, wit. are features of “.Ylacßeth and the Xhice Witches.” a remarkable paraphrase of Shakespeare’s tragedy, in which the moral emerges that. “Crime Does Not Pay.’ '1 he opening scene where the witches, amul shrieks and howls, prophesy the future, is a masterpiece of the “blood-and-thunder type. Throughout the play, murders, susponsefnl situations, and low cunning add their measure. t.o the fun. “So \\ hat. and the Seven Gawks,’’ based to some extent on the faery-tail recently placed among the great classics of all time by one -Malt Ginscy, is a phantasy with a strongly polttieal flavour. In it. such characters as “Doe Salvage.” “Sneezy Gnash,” ‘“Bashful Jay Lea. - ’ “Dopey dolin Citizen, “Prince Adams Appleton,” “Malt Ginsov,” “Auntie Skim” (of Radioland), and many others fitrurt the stage in company with the lovely maid of the forest. “So What” From the opening scene outside the Onekaka Steal Mine in the forest, the storv moves onwards to the groat broadeasting scone whore the wicked witch (Auntie Skim) puts a magic spell on the lovely “So AVhat,” thence to the daring “hath scene,’’ and finally to the party srene in the Gawks' State House, where Virtue is finally triumphant. Box p’ans for the season tire'now filling at C’ollinson and Cunninghamc's. and reservations, for which there is no extra charge, should be made without delay. I [ ~