Music and Drama
THEATRICAL NOTES
COMING PRODUCTIONS THEATRE AND CONCERT HALL HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE To-day.—Montague Show. September -J-J 1. —Don Cossack Choir. September 18. —"Runnymede" Pasreant. TOWN HALL September 2.—Little Theatre Society. LEWIS EADY HALL September 2'i—Auckland Juvenile Choir. Sheridan Players The third production by the Sheridan Players for the 1937 season will be J. B. Priestley's drama " Dangerous Corners." A strong cast has been chosen and the play will be presented early in October at Lewis Eady's Hall. The producer is Miss Merlyn Spooner. Auckland Juvenile Ohoir Tho Auckland Juvenile Choir will give its second concert in the Lewis Eady Hall on September 23 when half tho proceeds will bo devoted to tho Wilson Home for Crippled Children at Takapuna. Assisting artists will include Miss Sheila Mackenzie, harpist, and Miss Leela Bloy, violinist. Shavian Flays in the Dominion Forty years after its first production in England, Bernard Shaw's play "Candida" may have its first professional presentation in.New Zealand by Katharine Cornell, if the American actress-manager makes her contemplated world tour next year. Though the comedy has been acted by amateurs in this country, it is believed that it never has been played on the professional stage of Kew Zealand. "Saint Joan," also in Miss Cornell's proposed repertoire, was produced in Australia and New Zealand by Dame Sybil Thorndike. Wealth of Attractions 8 The current Auckland theatrical and musical season has been one of considerable variety and interest, and at times there has been such a number of productions offering that people may have found it difficult to decide what to
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)
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261Music and Drama New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)
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