BRIGHT SCENES CATCHY MUSIC IN “A RUNAWAY GIRL”; NEXT WEEK

Wanganui Chronicle, 29 April 1949, Page 9

BRIGHT SCENES CATCHY MUSIC IN “A RUNAWAY GIRL”; NEXT WEEK

Bright scenes, featuring a woodland in Corsica and the Grand Canal in Venice, are featured in the Wanganui Musical and Dramatic Society’s production. “A Runaway Girl.” which is to be staged at the Opera House, starting on Tuesday next. _ The story concerns an English girl, heiress to a fortune, wno is being educated at a convent in Corsica. On hearing that she is to be married to a man she has never seen, she runs away and gives title to the play by joining a band of gypsies. There is a bright note about the play, in its dialogue ami in its music. The music is catchy and appropriate, such numbers as “Soldiers in the Park’’ b<«ng set against a background of trees and gardens, gaily dressed wom’en and nursemaids with pramsthe bright, red striped uniforms of the soldiers contrasting with the gay civilian scene. “Sly Cigarette is a number which will appeal to all secondary school pupils and their parents, the convent, girls appearing in bright blue and white to provide a chorus for the heroine of the play, who sweetly and seductively sings of the “cigarette that every girl loves to smoke on the sly.” “A Runaway Girt’’ is to be presented on six nights—Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the following week. Box plan for the first three nights is now open and the plan for the remainder will open next Wednesday at the D.l.c.