"THE CONSTANT NYMPH."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 10 (Supplement)

"THE CONSTANT NYMPH."

LITTLE THEATRE SOCIETY. FULL CAST ANNOUNCED. ■ The final cast of " The Constant Nymph," which will bo presented by the Little Theatre Society in His Majesty's Theatre on Thursday, April 14, and the two following nights, with a matinee on the Saturday afternoon, has now been announced. The characters will be played as follows"Lewis Dodd," by Graham BrownDouglas; "Tessa," Hilda Morse; "Paulina." Rita Chapman; " Antonia," Maisie Free; "Kate," Mavis McCulloch; " Florence Churchill," Erica Blamiies; Roberto," Denver Calder; Chailes Churchill," Allan McSkimming; " Trigorin," Edward Newling; "Jacob Birnbaum," Jack Gordon; " Linda (lowland, Maisie Carte-Lloyd; " Susanne," Patricia Boyle; "Sir B. Pugh," Hampton Reynolds; "Dr. Dawson," John Mackle; " Rima Marxse," Elsa Craig; " Millicent," Jean Gordon; " Usher, ' John Carpenter; " Fireman," Kenneth Warburton. The producer, Mr. Gaston Mervale, is delighted with the way in which rehearsals are progressing. " The cast is an exceedingly happy family," he said vesterday. " Instead of being annoyed *at being given suggestions on acting, they all receive them and act on them happily." The incidental music, which plays an important part in the first act, has been selected by Mrs. Eve Miller and Tregorin's song has been specially written by Miss Margot Trafford. The lyric has been described as " really delightful. £mo care or expense has been reserved in preparing the settings, and altogether the production should bo one of the society s most successful shows. " The Constant Nympth" will be tho society's 25th production, and Mi-. Mervale's 73rd. The popular character of the play can be judged from the fact that when it was produced by an amateur society in Sydney, it ran for 36 consecutive nights, creating a record.