Woman Finds Important Job in Stage Managing

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 238, 8 October 1936, Page 11

Woman Finds Important Job in Stage Managing

Stage managing is work which appeals to many women who love the life of the theatre, yet there arc very lew who are able to hold down the job of stage manager in an important theatre (states an English exchange). Miss Barbara Curtis, of Loudon, however, is an outstanding exception, for she was stago manager for the recent Stratford-on-Avon festival. In a repertory company putting on as many as eight different plays in one week, this is a highly responsible position. Besides having experience as an actress, she is endowed with four invaluable assets for tho stage manager—she has charm, she is calm of temperament, and she has an inherent sense both of responsibility and of command. Miss Curtis has, moreover, the additional qualification of a deep knowledge of costume, which she studied under Herbert Norris. In collaboration with Air. Eric Maxon, she designed the costumes for this year’s festival productions of “The Merchant of Venice” and “The Taming of the Shrew.-' During the past three years, too, she has supervised the entire wardrobe of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, consisting of 3000 costumes.