“HOUSEMASTER”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1939, Page 7

“HOUSEMASTER”

LITTLE IHEATRE SOCIETY PRODUC'I lON. OPERA HOUSE NEXT WEEK. The introduction of three charming and high-spirited young girls into a British public school, a monastic institution naturally has a great many repercussions. By a chain of circumstances, these free and easy girls come to live with one of the housemasters, an old bachelor, just at a period when the school is going through somewhat troublesome times with a new headmaster. . That is the story to be unfolded in a three-act comedy by lan Hay, entitled “Housemaster,” to be presented in the Opera House next Tuesday and Wednesday by the Masterton Little Theatre Society. This will be the society’s second presentation of the season. “Housemaster” is being produced by Mrs Peggy Mirams, and the stage manager is Mr T. C. Wynne. The cast is as follows: —Charles Donkin. John Kennedy; “Bimbo” Farringdon. Evan Jaine; Victor Beamish, Vin Wilton; Frank Hastings, George Morice; Ellen, Molly Dwyer; Barbara Fane. Jean Douglas; “Button” Farringdon. Rhoda Burling; Matron, Helen Gill; Rosemary Farringdon, Bebe Francis; Chris Farringdon, Phyllis Shearer; Philip de Pourville, Neville Flemming; “Flossie” Nightingale. lan Prior; Reverend Ovington, Wilfred Free; Sir Berkley Nightingale, John Lawson; Travers, Allan Douglas, “Pop,” Rex Daniell, "Old Crump," Lawson Pither.