USED AS “AUNT SALLIES"

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 966, 8 May 1930, Page 7

USED AS “AUNT SALLIES"

PERFORMERS IN COLLEGE EXTRAVAGANZA “BATTLE” IN THEATRE From Ovr Resident Reporter WELLINGTON, Today. Scenes of violence marked the concluding night of “Kyd,” the Victoria College annual extravaganza. As soon as the show started a large body of students left the side seats in the Town Hall and rushed the front seats, where they entrenched them,selves. When the men’s chorus appeared on the stage the students began to bombard them with lumps of chalk. Tlie performers accepted the challenge, and before long a lively battle was raging between the audience and the players, who picked up ammunition about the stage and hurled it wherever a chance offered in the course of the show. In spite of a continual bombardment the play proceeded without interruption until, amid deafening cheers, a stallite threw a missile which knocked the hat from the fairy “policeman’s” head. With great good humour, the “policeman” produced a note-book and pretended to be entering the offender’s name. This incident apparently annoyed the cast, and the bombardment of the audience became almost as severe as that of the stage. Particular attention was paid to the pirate chief and the closing duet was greatly handicapped by the fact that the performers were being used as Aunt Sallies.