THEATRICAL NOTES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 10 (Supplement)

THEATRICAL NOTES

COMING .PRODUCTIONS THEATRE AND CONCERT HALL Town Wall November 14.—Royal Auckland Choir. Town Hall Concert Chamber November I.—Catholic Repertory Society (" Libel! ") November 9.—Little Theatre Society (" Salome.") His Majesty's Theatre November 6.—Viennese Boys' Choir. November.—Jack Gordon benefit. December.—" White Horse Inn." Lewis Eady Hall October 29.—Classic Club recital. Old Grammar School November 2.—Workers' Educational Association. (" The Hairy Ape.") Pianoforte Recital An interesting programme has been arranged for a pianoforte recital to bo given in the Lewis Eady Hall on Thursday by three pupils of Mr. Arthur E. Wilson, Miss Waveney Tinsley, Miss Isobel Pettit and Mr. Frank Piper, each of whom holds the Performers' Licentiate of the Itoyal Schools of Music. Assisting Artists will bo Clinton Williams, baritone, and Master John Michie, soprano. Classic Club Recital Over 20 performers, including somo of Auckland's most talented artists, will take part in a public recital to be given by the Classic Club in the Lewis Eady Hall on Tuesday night. The programme will include art songs, lieder and instrumental solos. The club was formed early in 1933, its object being to give an opportunity to advanced young students, who wished to perform tho better class of songs and music, of gaining platform experience. Catholic Repertory Play A scurrilous newspaper attack upon tho reputation of a shell-shock British officer is thp keynote of " Libol," the play to bo presented by tho Auckland Catholic Repertory Society in the Town Hall concert chamber on November 1, 2 and 4. A strong cast of amateur play-

era is headed by Rusk Harris, as Thomas Foxley, K.C., and AJan McSkimming, as Sir Wilfred Kelling, K.C. Other leading roles will be taken by Doreen Saunders, Mary O'Dowd, Terry Agmen-Smith, Max Robertson, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Ron Bowie, Phil Hackett and Wilfred Dowd. Benefit Concert Arranged A large committee of Auckland's theatrical and musical people has been formed to arrange an entertainment to be held in His Majesty's Theatre at the end of November to assist Mr. Jack Gordon, a former Aucklander, whose work in theatrical circles is well-known. Mr. Gordon is now seriously ill in Central Otago. Tho programme, which has not yet been finally decided upoh, will include three items by the Auckland Amateur Operatic Society, one-act plays by the Auckland Little Theatre Society and the British Drama League, a play by Althea Parker's Company, and several instrumental and vocal items. All interested may communicate with Mr. C. B. Plummer, chairman of tho committee, or Mi*. W. Laird Thomson, secretary.