SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 106, 9 May 1946, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

WIVES Uno’s world platform on marriage •s very explicit that a husband shall have but one wife at a time, but seems very vague as to whether a wife should have more than one husband. A FUTILE BATTLE

It seems that, we fought the “Baltle of the Wasser” all for nothing. The British are getting out of Egypt. The chap who cut the tire brigade hosp can come forward now and claim the decoration that awaits him, and the man who threw that piano into the street will be decorated, too. Farewell, Cairo! ARE WE AU AKE, OR IS IT A DREAM?

What has changed Pete Fraser—his trips to Buckingham Palace, to tho White House, or what? Fancy asking workers not to strike, that Labours life depends on them not doing so. Labour stands by the strike weapon. . How dare Pete tell the workers other- r

wise? Reading his speech of this morn, we kept saying: “How like Sid Holland’s?” We hope no mug has telegraphed the wrong speech, or attributed it to lhe wrong man.

NEW PLAY FOR WANGANUI. Eva Moore, versatile producer of “Sally,” intends to launch out into straight comedy, and produce for the V anganui Mutica. and Dramatic So- < lety, an entirely new play, which she herself is responsible tor —“The Lost Fearl Ear-ring.” Casting is in progress. Miss Moore herself will be cast as the person who. lost the ear-ring. One part will be tilled by a male member of the society, who will be cast as tne driver o| the St John’s Hill bus. wno, with Miss Moore, searched high and low, hut unsuccessfully, through that much maligned vehicle, from bonnet to differential. We have been rejected unsuitable for the part of the “Chronicle” staff man who took the lost advertisement from Miss Moore. We have no stage appearance, and that role will probably fall to our t Cml looking literacy man (you <7l guess who that. is). A major feminine

part will fall to Miss Moore’s hostess, who is responsible for lhe plot of the (flay, in that, hearing bv “kitchen grapevine,” while Miss Moore was d asieep, that the ear-ring had never been lost, but was reposing safely in Miss Moore’s purse, jotted down a series of telephone numbers from people who wanted to ask Miss Moore if the ear-rings they had found were hers. Casting the owners of those teleoi.one numbers should be fairly easj. The first Miss Moore rang to tell she had found the ling was a plumber's ci.ice girl. She got the plumber, the plumber got his mate. Both were very bewildered. The second was a supposed girl attendant at the Wangai.u Ladies’ Club (Miss Moore’s hostess in disguise), who was told later that the “girl at the club reemed such a mutt.” Another major part, that of M'ss Moure’s host, will have to be filled a man capable of assuming the M In expression when searching the family lubbish tin, from potato peeluigi. and crockery, to dust and ashes, a missing ear-ring. It might be di licult in Wanganui to find a person capable of filling the role of the enquiier who rang up and said: “I hear that Miss Moore lives with you, and that, s he lost a pearl ear-ring. Is there anv reward?” and who hung up when • old there wasn’t The plav will have a moral, which, we feel furc, w ill be appreciated by many Wanganui folk, especially a girl r we know who lost a string of’pearls: “Always bo sure you have lost some* thirg before you start to look for it'*