MUSIC AND DRAMA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

MUSIC AND DRAMA

THEATRICAL NOTES COMING PRODUCTIONS THEATRE AND CONCERT HALL HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE July 3 s.—Auckland Amateur Operatic Society, "Sally." August 2. —Frank Neil Revue Company. September.—"Runnymede" Pageant. TOWN HALL CONCERT CHAMBER August 12.—Auckland Dorian Choir. LEWIS EADY HALL To-morrow.—Auckland Society of Musicians. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HALL July 15.—University Music Club. Society of Musicians Many prominent performers "will take part in a concert to be given by the Auckland Society of Musicians in the Lewis Eady Hall to-morrow afternoon. The artists will include Vincent Aspey, Madame Annette Chapman, Jean Clarkson, Amy Hansard, Dora Judson, Mary Murphy, Kathleen O'Leary, Phyllis Jtaudon, Lois Walls and Leo Whittaker. The concert will be open to the public. Operatic Society's Ballet The following comprise the ballet for the Auckland Amateur Operatic Society's presentation of "Sally" at His Majesty's Theatre, commencing next Thursday: Misses Mardi Brook, Flora Fenton, Edith Graham, Pat Boyle, Marjorio Callendar, Doris McGowan, Joan McAlpine, Pearl Smedley, Joy Beattie, Violet Thorp, Gwen Atkins and .lesmond Hiscott. Miss Loloma Kay is ballet mistress.

" Sally." Auckland Dorian Choir A miscellaneous programme, including a shortened version of the first act of "Lohengrin" (Wagner) will be given by the Auckland Dorian Choir at its next concert in the Town Hall concert I chamber on August 12. Parts in "Lohengrin" will be taken as follows: I King Henry, J. T. Gibson; Lohengrin, Horace Maddocks; Elsa, Hilda Refrell; Count Frederick of Telmarind, John Bond; Herald, Robert Simmers. University Music Club Tliose who have attended the Auckland University College Music Club's annual concert in the past,, will- be pleased to learn that the club intends to produce a concert in the college hall on July 15 and 16 on somewhat different lines from their Gilbert and Sullivan selections. This year a concert of folk songs will be given. The first section will consist of British folk songs, followed by a selection, of folk songs of all nations, while a third section will embrace the better known songs of Gav's Beggar Opera, first produced in 1728. Malvern Festival Plays Two plays by Bernard Shaw are included in the repertory of this year's Malvern Festival, beginning on July 26. These are "The Apple Cart," first produced at Malvern in 1929, and a recent play that has only up to now been s;een at Bexhill, "The Millionairess." There will be one other example of contemporary drama, "Return to Sanity," by Gerald Wynne Rushton and T. South Mack, first produced a few months ago in Birmingham. Other plays in the repertory are "The School for Scandal," Fielding's "Tom Thumb the Great," and two examples of 16th century playwriting, the celebrated "Gamma Gurton's Needle" (c. 1575). and the recently discovered "Susannah" (e. Io60), unearthed by Professor 1 for Evans in what is believed to be the single surviving copy.

Shakespearean Company A Shakespearean company is being brought by J. C. Williamson, Limited, from Stratford-on-Avon next year, states the Sydney Morning Herald. The paper adds that as- the tour will begin in February, and will extend throughout Australia and New Zealand, this company will be something different from the body of players which appears in the famous Shakespeare Memorial Theatre during the English spring and summer. Still, a selection of recent Stratford stage settings may be brought here, and that would bo excellent; for some of the loading designers, such as Komisarjevsky, have provided highly attractive examples of tlioir work for the special performances at tlio festival. Although few really famous actors appear at Stratford, the companies there usually reach an even level of achievement, and they perform tlio Shakespearean repertoire with eloquenco and smoothness. As regards the Australian visit, much will depend on tlio personality of the producer who lias the duty of welding the new assemblage of players into a harmonious ensemble.