COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

Southland Times, Issue 25312, 15 June 1935, Page 22

COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

-QUOTATION FOR TO-DAY.— % Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go; They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

My dear Cousins, Before I go any further, I want to ask all cousins willing to sell programmes at the Theatre on both nights to come up to my office on Monday after school, leave their names, and receive instructions. I do hope at least a dozen will come, for we will need them, and the programmes will be interesting souvenirs in days to come. To-day is going to be a very busy one for all of us. To remind you, I am publishing again the times at which you must be at the Theatre this morning. It is most important, as this is probably the only rehearsal we will ee able to have at the Civic Theatre. 8.30: Junior boys. 9 o’clock: Senior boys. 9.30: Girls. 10 o’clock: Cousins in “The Photo.” Will everyone please bring slippers or gym. shoes? Then, in the afternoon, at 2 o’clock, the girls will have a DRESS REHEARSAL in the Operatic Rooms. The senior boys will have a dress rehearsal on Monday, after school. The junior boys will have a dress rehearsal on Tuesday, after school. Now to think of Thursday and Friday evenings. All the cousins in the plays must be at the Theatre by 7 o’clock. There will be cars on both nights to take you home. On Thursday night you will be able to go home as soon as your play is over; and on Friday night, as you will have Saturday to recuperate in, you will be able to stay until the end, when cars will again be available to take you home. Now to tell you the object of our work. Several years ago the-Little Southlanders worked to raise money to build a room for the night nurses at the Karitane-Hunt Hospital. Since then we have worked for many other objects, including the Isabella Dryburgh School, the Public Hospital and the Health Camp. There have been several suggestions about the use to which the pro--acus of our plays will be put, and I think that you will be pleased to hear we are working for the babies this year, the money for our plays to be devoted to the Karitane-Hunt Hospital. One night, the children" who attend our own Isabella Dryburgh school are coming to the plays. I’m sure every actor and actress will be pleased to know that our small guests will be sitting in the audience. The plays are going to be a great success, both financially and artistically, aren’t they, cousins mine? Your