INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 276, 20 November 1937, Page 11

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

ANNUAL ENTERTAINMENT “A Christmas Carol,” though the simplest tale of human joys and sorrows, stands, perhaps as the world’s most loved Christmas story. Dickens enthusiasts need not fear that the beauty of the original has been lost in dramatising. Sir Edward ParrotL has done his work most skilfully, and, by the addition of carols, has made the texture even more English, if that were possible. In presenting this work at the Opera House on December 1 and 2, the Intermediate School hopes that the audience will experience, in spirit, the joys of a real old English Christmas. Carol singers against a snowy background, pealing bells, the Fezziwigs’ Christmas party, the Cratchits’ Christmas dinner, the strange appearances of the ghostly visitants, form a colourful canvas on which is woven, with unerring skill, the story that never grows old—the regeneration of the most notorious old miser in London. The play is presented in four stages, : which form a lively contrast, and hold the interest to the end. Over 130 : children take part in the performance, • and they will be assisted by an ' orchestra arranged by Mr. H. J. Trus-! sell. i