DRAMA ELIMINATION FESTIVAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20513, 3 September 1936, Page 12

DRAMA ELIMINATION FESTIVAL

The friendly interest which has always characterised the performances in connection with the British Drama League was manifested last night when a large audience was present in the Theatre Royal to witness the staging of four plays by teams from Dunedin, Christchurch and Timaru. At the conclusion the judge, Mr Victor S. Lloyd, chose the members of the Canterbury College Drama Society and the Dunedin Players to go to Dunedin for the National final. Those present included Miss Amy Kane, Wellington (chairman of the National Executive), Dr W. H. Unwin, Mr and Mrs C. R. Orr-Walker, Mr and Mrs A. E. Lawrence, Rev. Milburn Stewart and Mrs Stewart, Mr and Mrs B. H. Howell, Mr and Mrs T. E. Holdgate, Mr and Mrs J. Ferrier, Mr and Mrs G. Tully (Temuka), Mr and Mrs E. Darroch, Mr and Mrs Kirke (Geraldine) , Mr and Mrs P. C. Vinnell, Mr and Mrs R. A. Holdgate, Mr and Mrs Malcolm Arthur, Mr and Mrs E. Howden, Mr and Mrs Cecil Holdgate, Mr and Mrs W. Carlton, Mr and Mrs Brownie, Mr and Mrs H. Holdgate, Mr and Mrs J. Cleland, Dr and Mrs W. Sowerby, Mr and Mrs J. A. Norrie, Mr W. H. Walton and Miss Dorothy Walton, Mr and Mrs W. G. Irwin, Dr and Mrs L. S. Talbot, Mr and Mrs S. Black, Mr and Mrs W. Tank, Dr and Mrs G. Ussher, Dr and Mrs P. B. Benham, Mr and Mrs Wilfred Tank. Mrs J. W. Holdgate, Mrs J. Scott, Mrs Hun-ter-Weston, Mrs W. H. Howell, Mrs R. Hudson (Dunedin), Mrs D. Smeaton (Dunedin), Mrs Sutherland Ross (Dunedin), Mrs F. Oxford. Mrs G. E. Gabites, Mrs J. M. Scott, Mrs N. Hawkes, Mrs Rout (Nelson), Mrs R. D. King, Mrs Smith, Mrs H. F. Morton, Mrs R. Irving (Albury), Mrs J. C. Oddie, Mrs C. E. Kerr, Mrs W. D. Campbell. Mrs W. Thomas, Mrs W. Moody, Mrs D. Solomon (Dunedin), Mrs Wakefield Holmes (Dunedin), Mrs G. H. Cossins, Mrs D. Unwin, Mrs K. de Castro, Mrs F. L. Barker, Mrs J. O. Templer (Waimate), Mrs Clarke (Dunedir', Mrs C. A. Paterson, Mrs H. H. Fisher (Albury), Mrs W. White. Misses Bessie Thompson (Dunedin), Scott, Sheila Howell, Mae Scott, Effie Gibb, Betty Holdgate, Wade, Madge Irwin, Howell, Mills, Sutherland, Ross (Dunedin), Holdgate (2), P. Hanlon (Dunedin), Magill (Wellington), Clarke (Dunedin), Averille Lawrence, Doris Patchett, Natalie Oxford, Helen Kerr, Muriel Cranston, Maud Howden, Nancy Bond, Lesley Warsaw, Helen Unwin. Twomey. Brown (Temuka), Martin, Elsie Oddie. Ailsa and Margaret Campbell. Anne Gabites, May Barron (Dunedin), Ethel Adams, Sylvia Rudge, Isabel Moody, Mary White, Vincent, Helen Scott, Margaret Nelson.