LITTLE THEATRE SOCIETY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22463, 6 July 1936, Page 3

LITTLE THEATRE SOCIETY

PLAY BY NOEL COWARD SOME DELIGHTFUL FROCKING A large audience greeted the presentation of Noel Coward's three-act play "Easy Virtue," with which the Little Theatre Society opened a season of five nights 011 Saturday in the concert chamber of the Town Hall. The setting for the three scenes is a lounge room in the homo of Admiral Whittaker, which is attractively furnished with couches and chairs in brown and soft green tonings with gay cushions adding colour to the room.

As Larita, the wife of John Whittaker, Miss Althea Parker makes her first appearance in a smartly-tailored suit of black cloth with a tunic blouse of magnolia satin embroidered at the high neckline in red and black. With it she wears a white fox fur and a black turban felt hat finished with a quill and eye-veil. 111 the second scene she wears a delightful tunic of shot gold talfctas with long wide sleeves over a three-quarter-length skirt of leaf brown ring velvet. For her appearance at the ball Miss Parker wears a lovely evening frock of self-striped white taffetas finished at the shoulder and waistline with cherry satin, which also lines the train of the frock. In accordance with her character in the play she wears a wide collar of pearls and numerous jewelled bracelets and carries a white ostrich feather fan.'

As Mrs. Whittaker, Mrs. Helen Griffiths wears in the first act a niggerbrown cloth frock with collar and cuffs of gold lame. Later she appears in a delphinium bluo silk lrock and in tho final scene her evening frock is of black cire satin relieved with diamante. A smartly-tailored brown tweed skirt with a maize woollen belted cardigan is worn by Miss Ethel Horn, who takes the part of Marion. In the second scene she wears a white tailored tennis frock with a scarlet belt and appears, finally, in an evening frock of daffodil satin cut with a high neckline and finished with puffed sleeves.

The part of the younger daughter, Hilda, is taken by Miss Joan Moody, who, in the opening scene, wears a brown skirt and cream cardigan. Her tennis frock of red and white checked gingham is youthful with its deep collar of white organdi and at the ball she wears a delightful evening frock of primrose taffetas with a quilted hem and bertha collar. Tho difficult role of Sarah Hurst is taken by Miss Brig Cahi 11, who looks charming in a cinnamon-brown frock with cream Peter Pan collar and a brown cloth cape. In the second act she looks equally attractive in a white ■tennis frock, while for the ball she wears a long-sleeved frock of jade green metalasse finished 011 the shoulder with mulberrv-toned velvet flowers.

The only appearance of Mrs. Helen Parker, who takes the part of Mrs. Phillips, is in the last act, when slio wears a charming frock of black crepe with a bertha collar of beige lace. Over the frock she wears a black cape embroidered with beige and finished with a beige fur collar. Charming evening frocks are also worn by Miss Dorothy Taylor, Miss Ruth Chandler, Miss Bobby Angus and Miss Marie Drysdale.