HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT.

Wairarapa Age, 19 June 1936, Page 4

HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT.

REPEAT PERFORMANCE LAST NIGHT. ANOTHER CAPACITY HOUSE. The Wairarapa High School pupils again scored an outstanding success with their annual concert which was presented to a capacity house in St. Matthew’s Parish Hall last night. The audience was thoroughly appreciative. The Principal, Mr. H. B. Tomlinson, thanked the public for their patronage and congratulated the organisers and the pupils on the success achieved. The second half of the programme consisted of a very original one-act play, "Tails Up,” performed by senior pupils. It deals with the distant future, a time when oil and coal are exhausted. The manager of a great mo-tor-factory, forseeing the shortage, has been secretly breeding horses, otheiwise extinct, and at the crucial moment he introduces some thousands of strange animals to an astonished world, enriching himself beyond measure, and generally reordering the world, of transport. The play was a most difficult one, in theme, costuming apd effects, but though so ambitious, it' was performed remarkably well. E. Coddington in the leading part gave a thoroughly finished performance, though all the players were good. The cast is to be congratulated on a most effective piece of work.

The thanks of the school are due to the many people who gave help in various ways, and to Messrs Hoar and Permain, Hugo and Shearers, and Donald and Sons for the loan of properties.