SHAW'S COMEDY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 77, Issue 6978, 15 October 1948, Page 3

SHAW'S COMEDY

“YOU NEVER CAN TELL” HAMILTON PEOPLE’S THEATRE PRESENTATION The Hamilton People’s Theatre, which is to visit Te Awamutu, has gathered together a strong cast for the presentation of George Bernard Shaw’s comedy “You Never Can Tell” in the College Assembly Hall the week after next. Valentine, “the five-shilling dentist”, is played by John Profit who comes to the Club with wide experience in the American drama world. He was sometime president of Harvard University Dramatic Society, and while there directed the production of Auden and Usherwood’s ‘The Ascent of F 6”. He also played the roles of Falstaff in Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives of Windsor”; the Due de Chaucigny-Varennes in Coward’s “Conversation Piece”.

Dolly Clandon is played by Margaret Cameron, a vivacious and very promising young actress who made her debut in this play in July in Hamilton. Bob Shannon, who plays Philip Clandon, comes to the theatre from amateur drama circles in Manchester. This is his first part in New Zealand. Qloria Clandon, a fine role, is played by Cushla Milroy who is well known as a fine speaker of Shakespearean verse. Miss Milroy played in the repertory production of “Dear Octopus”. Mrs Clandon is taken by Katherine Foreman whose last role was Lady Loxfield in Priestley’s “They Came to a City”. Dorothy Bennett, the dentist’s assistant, was a member of the Morrinsville Drama Society and has taken part in festival plays. Ken Duncan, who plays McComus, the family solicitor, has already played two major roles in People’s Theatre productions: Dr Harvester in Maugham’s “Sacred Flame”, and Private Meek in Shaw’s I “Too True to be Good”. Haswell Paine, whose productions Jof Shaw plays include: “O’Flaherty I V.C.”, Major Barbara”, “Heartbreak I House”, “Too True to be Good”, plays I the part of William, the waiter. Fred Jackson, well-known in HamI ilton Drama circles, has in his time I played many parts: “They Came to • a City”, “Dear Octopus”, “Robert’s ! Wife”, “Fumed Oak”, “Morning Star” i have all seen him bear some part of I the acting burden. He plays the part I of Fergus Crampton in “You Never . Can Tell’. Louis Seifert, whose mem- | bership of the theatre dates from its I early days was last seen in O’Casey’s j “Pound on Demand”; he plays the I robust part of Bohun Q. C.