LITTLE PLAYS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 190, 13 August 1931, Page 6

LITTLE PLAYS

J. M. BARRIE’S little play entitled, “The Twelve Pound Look” was performed with no small measure of ability by a group of local amateur actors on Tuesday evening before an audience composed of members of the Bible Classes of Wanganui. The audience, which comprised chiefly young people of from fourteen years of age upwards, was very appreciative. Sir James Barrie’s humour is of the quiet kind. It is not slapstick. The audience in question did not miss the subtlety of the dialogue, nor the naivety of the actions. In the production of little plays of which the various societies of Wanganui have rendered in-quite plentiful supply, there is provided a decided evidence of a cultural development within the city of which the publie can justifiably be proud.

Little plays provide an excellent form of recreational entertainment. They amuse, and at the same time, tend to improve the literary taste of the community. Those who take part in the production of these plays find considerable pleasure in so doing, while the cultural reward to themselves is necessarily much greater than that of the audience. Those who have the opportunity to take part in such plays should exercise their opportunities, while the publie should afford such efforts every support.