"THE DOVER ROAD"

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22295, 22 June 1934, Page 15

"THE DOVER ROAD"

A FIRST-CLASS PERFORMANCE. The excellence of the play—A. A. Milne's " The Dover Road "—as presented by the Otago University Dramatic bociety in His Majesty's Theatre last evening was undoubted. The cool, spacious stage, set so as to represent the reception room of Mr Latimer's house (a little way off the Dover road) and combining into, a tasteful harmony fawns and browns with the occasional bright notes of red curtains, amber table light,, green caudle sticks and flowers, was in itself excellent, nor did the appearance or ability of the student actors detract from . such excellence. The male cast was all good, though chief honours naturally, rested with Mr Lester Moller, whose, portrayal ot Latimer, hiding under a whimsical exterior a very human heart, was a piece of masterly characterisation. Miss Isobel Newlands, as Anne, and Miss Margot Garrett, as Eustasia, played the female parts, two types more different in character being hard to imagine, lhey were splendid, their appeal ' growing as the play advanced, until at the final curtain the audience was wholly in sympathy with both of them. Miss Newlands's costumes were a cherry frock trimmed with black cire satin and white pique, and worn with a Puck hat to match, and a teddy bear coat; and an apricot woollen morning frock trimmed with a scarf of brown and apricot check silk. Miss Garrett appeared first in a nigger brown wool coat and skirt, and a white blouse; then in a moss-green Angora trimmed with green satin, and worn with a brimmed hat to match and an effective fox fur: and finallv in a dress of love-bird green and white check crinkly crepe completed at the throat with a white bow. The maids, who. with the . footmen and the übiquitous Dominic, helped to give the play the effect of going by clockwork, were Misses Joy Reid and Joy Kae. their olive-trreen wool crepe frocks being smartly offset with fawn organdie caps and aprons embroidered in pale blue and The producer. Miss Bessie Thomson, is to be congratulated on having added yet another to her growing line of successes. The play, which is one that should not be missed, will be produced again to-night and to-morrow nisht.