REPERTORY THEATRE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19108, 28 June 1930, Page 14

REPERTORY THEATRE.

There were only four women in the cast of the play, “A Bill of Divorcement,” presented by members of the Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society at the Radiant Hall last evening. The luxurious appointments of the drawingroom, in which all three acts took place, made a delightful setting for their frocks and nowhere did the colour scheme of the former mar the attractiveness of the latter. Mrs V. Evans, as Margaret Fairfield, looked charming in a simple frock of apple green crepe marocain made with a loose, slightly pouched bodice, and long sleeves finished with small cuffs of beige georgette to match the dainty georgette collar, which, caught at the neck with a scarlet and green brilliant buckle, fell in two tie-ends to the waist. The full-flared skirt, which was worn long iu four deep scallops, hung from a hip yoke, dipping slightly at the back and caught up in front with shirring. Later, “Margaret” donned a smart grey-brown mixed tweed coat, in a diagonal weave, the capacious pockets being cut slightly on the slant. She also wore a white fox fur and a smart felt hat of deeper green, its narrow brim turned up from the face, and the crown being inset with beige felt, and banded with green ribbon. In a later act “Margaret” wore a handsome musquash coat of three-quarter length over her apple-green frock. Mrs F. G. Malpas, who took the part of Hester F'airfield, wore a handsome gown of black faconne. Cut on. Princess lines, the gown fell straight and long, the ankle-length skirt forming an uneven hemline, and being araped over to one side, where it was caught on the left hip by a large jet motif from which fell two tie ends of jet. The bodice was made with a little square Medici collar at the back, and a deep V-shaped vest, the line of which was followed by a simple row of jet trim* ming. The sleeves were long and tightfitting to the waist, opening in tiny points underneath.

The part of Sidney Fairfield was taken by Miss Vajerie Tennant, who looked thoroughly modern in a gay sports suit of check tweed in brown tonings. The short coat was bound down the front with leaf brown, as were also the slanting pockets. The skirt, with its wide box pleats, back and front, and large side pleats, fell to a little below the knees, from a hip yoke, with a narrow belt. Under her coat she wore a dainty tuck-in blouse of primrose ► wool crepe de" chine, the collar and line of the cuffs being piped with leaf brown crepe de chine. Quaint Chinese symbols were embroidered on each side of the collar and also on the long tie ends. Mrs W. B. Harris, as “Bassett,” the maid, looked smart in her uniform of black sateen with white apron, cuffs and bandeau.

Miss Kiore King, the producer, wore an attractive. frock of nocturne blue souple satin, inset with black beaded panels which fell in points below the hemline.