SHAKESPEARIAN READING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13428, 10 July 1914, Page 1

SHAKESPEARIAN READING.

'7 The Gisborne Shakespeare Club are ; to be congratulated upon the s»« ess ™ their first public reading of -the , lawSon, "As Vw Like It" be.ng produced ■ at Abercwn hajl hist evening to a jlai'ge anoY appreciative Ihe m Which, ihe^avr «ex preSominated, showed uthat" \here Avas- no Kg off of. interest, m the readings, ftnd^hilst.patroiis had expressed their Seratthe club's inabilitAV to securfe a Sifom Ellen Terry, thehgure mentioned precluded any such arrangement being effected. Last evenings selection wSs the same a*;'that e° f**"-^. Sered ab the inception of the club W years ago, under ihe abe presidency S tie iate ife;; A. F. .Kennedy. The eU-Kelasfc evening was tastefully arranged as the president jocularly-remarkedv •^'rJprSenrS "fojU <rf Arfe" tfj. funishinia. ( beinjr kin4ly, +^u ppW by Messrs lamson'Hros. 'apd thW.#Wns by S HaSesV Vhflst ifor LL ; ;etneringtmi JW-rtook > the responsibility^ pioHcer Parens', orchestra supplied' ap* iSate m^ic, -Inch added much to Fh« «veui»*'£ entertainment. In $$*%&&» a. fe^MnfToductory remarks^hTprWrident (Mr «-*V™iey) that one of the- object. .g the irfiib was to. encourage, a Jf?V* -to ■ the. &«riL nf A'vOn/raud the fact p> such a tee alienee ahowed : that , they W ■SS success. There might , ; be hr readings, but wfco o* account of busineee and home ties were' jj ;JoT but these, he poised «H^^ hem the chib by becoming honorary Sbers, the subscription (8s per annum) ffigw the same, ari the P""^-.*^ •So? as active members, Proceeding, :' Jff%eiter antt^* the familiar story ' ■■ wL«r*«lised iii "As -You Like It, reKing that it was a Jove story in.a £S of love. The reading, he. hoped, S-fe:i!'-m.5« miseThS; a ' Sha^esgaridrl^^g before the season closed/ (Applause.) f °The dramatis personae TO «$[ lews: »uke Fredemk, Mr,Ll.l^mg + fm . Duke Senior, Mr O. Jiayne, T « ' o* Mr fi'O Pasco ; Charles (the ..Taques, ra^^ .. Oliver, Mr w, testier), Mr &. A. , lirna vrl if Rowell : Orlando, Mi' L- +•• l ""! iX f •?i>*?of Rr Rowland de BoysV; Adam, Mr A T. Webb (servant ip Orlando) ; SwA^one, Mr 6." Barton "(cTowii) ; Stord Ur C. G.Blopre; Second i tJmx! ifr J- <*• Ox? Covin, Mr P. -J. Bowley f William, W,S«mson -(county • MlowV kosaUnd, Miss-Sievwnght ; Ceha, markedva corral •■s? ! to, .the ,/lwo-^»? w public last evening^ '^e^rs,, o,^layne End 'J Rowell. and quibe'' justified, their fnclusion, whilst Mr... J.' A. .^icol took !? 1 rJ ™ of Mr G; Broom on short the piace .<* -^v'/'conti-l bated i alio another apmm^ate - -JfCr the -JO^rvah,;; the' JiccoTOßftini^ntß M 'being sunplied-by Mrs .m^Ung. v; ',-•-