"OUR MISS GIBBS"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 4

"OUR MISS GIBBS"

THREE MORE NIGHTS OF SEASON

“Our Miss Gibbs,’’ a loveable English musical comedy, which has delighted Large audiences, drawn main|v from lhe loyal supporters of the “flesh and blood" stage, is to show again in the Opera House to-morrow night (Tuesday), again on Wednesday a-nd then on Thursday for the last time. It is a brilliantly coloured musical play, in which a team of young Wanganui players has men to the top in acting and singing. Their performance has given distinct encouragement to those who genuinely have the future of the amateur stage at heart. The story of “Ou Miss Gibbs" has been set. in London, begins in one of London’s fashionable stores, where “Mary Gibbs" (Thelma Dandy) has come to work. This Yorkshire maid ' is loved by all. but herself falls in love* with Lord Enysford (Alan Scott), whom she knows cs a bank clerk. The story is complicated by the match-making designs of the “Duchess of Minster" (Nel. Richardson) to marry her daughter. “Lady Betty" (Penrhyn Hutton) to "Lord Eyrisford.” “Betty" further complicates matters by being in love with “Hon. Hughie Pierpont" (Colin Peffers), an amateur crook, who “pinches” things for fun. He actually “pinches” the Ascot Gold Cup in the play. The love story of “Our Miss Gibbs" and the interwoven love ffairs of “Lady Betty” become further entangled when “Mary's" cousin from Yorkshire “Timothy Gibbs," arrives in London, check suit and all. his time-niece padlocked to his suit, his eunhonium in hand, his bag. with mother’s cakes and eggs and a stray collar firmly in his possession. He hccomc<? entangled with nnf only lhe amateur crook but {also a real o nn . “Slithers" (Don Gor- ■ t’nn). These characters revolve round Garrod’s store. and nut. the manager of that establishment. “Mr. Toplady” (Douglas Sherriff) into a whirl. They

shift later to the J • anco-British Exhibition. Miss L\a Moore, formerly of the J. C. Williamson Company, Sydney, is the producer and Mrs. C I. Spillane, Wanganui the honorary musical director. I Upon the success of this musical play will depend whether “Katinka” is staged in the near future. It is hoped by stalwarts of the society that the city can look forward lo a period of increasing interest in amateur stage productions.