MATAURA NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 21263, 9 December 1930, Page 9

MATAURA NEWS

SCOUTS’ ENTERTAINMENT. (From Our Correspondent.) Under the direction of Mr E. R. Darracott, a number of young people have been rehearsing for the past few months for the production of the musical comedy, “The Haunted Room,” and the effort was staged in the Horticultural Hall on Friday night. The hall was packed to overflowing. The interesting and highly diverting plot centred round Miss Angelica Vernon (Miss E. Irwin) and her suitor Mr Augustus O’Farrell (Mr A. J.. Jones) and at the rise of the curtain the audience was transported to the ancestral home of Sir Harry Blunt, where the heroine imparts the information that her guardian intends to get rid of her. Action follows action in rapid sequence. The villain, Mr Cottongoods, is seen in consultation with the apparently decrepit Sir Harry Blunt, who agrees to the suit brought forward by him, and as the plot thickens the heroine is informed of her fate.' The production abounded in rich humour, the characterizations were remarkably well done and the scenic effects testified to the vast amount of work entailed in the presentation.

At an interval, the president of the Scout Troop Committee, Mr A. N. MacGibbon, voiced the object of the Mataura Revue . Company and stated that the money raised would benefit ; the . scout movement at Mataura. He thanked Mr McDermott for the amount of time and trouble he had taken in producing the show. Excellent support had also been received from the public and he thanked all who had assisted.