Manawatu Repertory Society

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 66, 19 March 1936, Page 10

Manawatu Repertory Society

To-night the Society presents three staged one-act plays iu the Empire Hall. This is the first of three such evenings by means of w r hich it is intended to give all members desiring it, experience in staged productions as well as readings. This year the society has almost doubled its membership and much of the new talent by which it has benefited will be participating in tonight’s presentations. The programme is a varied one,'the. three plays being totally dissimilar in period, players and plot. Those who enjoyed meeting the so refined old . maids of “Quality Street” a fortnight ago, will be delighted to make tho acquaintance of some contemporaries of the Misses Throssel in “The Spinster of Lushe” (Philip Johnson) produced by Mrs W. M. Webster, which provides another delightful glimpse of Early Victorian gentility. The tactics -which an extremely modern young wife adopts in order to combat the fascination which Darkest Africa exerts on her husband, provide the situation in “Women Do Thing? Like That” (Olive Conway) produced by Miss M. Richards. The final presentation is “The House With The TwistyWindows” (Mary PaKington) produced by Miss U. Hancock, which has its setting in the cellar of a house in Petrograd where some English people are confined during the time of the Bolshevist Red Terror. The three plays are under the general supervision of Miss U. Hancock and she and her associates have gone to considerable pains to make the evening a memorablo one.