Vesti la Guibba

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 226, 22 April 1933, Page 2

Vesti la Guibba

The footlights are turned on in the province of Egmont, and the voice of the prompter is loud in the land. Expectant youth is vesting the Gmbba donning the buskin and looking eagerly for new barns to storm. The password is "Uplift" and the countersign "Dramatic Art." Ever since the visit of Miss Elizabeth Blake tO'Taranaki and her thrilling rendering of "Cavalcade" there is a growing determination to street the boards declaiming blank verse or unctious prose. Groups are being formed and there shall be a festival or two. Taranaki, north, south, east "and west, is bubbling over, with theatrical enthusiasm. Curtains will rise in many a distant outpost of the dairy industry to reveal perhaps latent talent of unexpected brilliance, for every community hides some nebulous Druse or inglorious Garrick, who biit for lack of opportunity might have outdazzled the stars of Hollywood, beggared the Folic Bergere or outpointed the Wellington Repertory Company.