NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21702, 18 January 1934, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

TCoccn fc news received of the Troubadours (Jean nnd Betty Rayner), who aro well known in Auckland, states that they have been touring England in a caravan for tho past ten- months, and,' although they intended deserting it to spend Christmas with relations, they would return to it in January. They have already travelled some 6000 miles in it. They played at Marlborough College and at tho Oxford University summer meeting, and at a quaint little Elizabethan theatre at Norwich. There is no prospect of the Rayners returning to Now Zealand within tho next two years at least. The two girls had had a delightful time in Kd in burgh, and were thcro on Armistice Day. Miss Betty Rayner made a quaint remark in connection with this. She said:—"We wont up to tho castlo and could sco the whole city spread out below us half hidden under a soft blue haze. Tho fact that some organisation had arranged to disturb the two-minute silence by having one man in each street walking and talking didn't matter a bit. It. only reminded 0110 that our 'silence' should give us the desire and ability to help all mankind. Probably the dis- • turbers were convinced that they were doing the right thing, which at least shows that they were trying to think. I thought of tho closing bit of Cavalcade where it pleads for 'dignity, gentleness, and peace in the present generation.' "