AMATEUR ACTIVITIES

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17750, 29 June 1929, Page 17 (Supplement)

AMATEUR ACTIVITIES

HAMILTON OPERATIC SOCIETY. The large attendance at the first rehearsal of “Gipsy Love” and the enthusiasm displayed augurs well for another successful production, and there is little doubt that the enviable reputation gained throughout New Zealand by the Hamilton Operatic Society will be maintained this season.

INTERESTING PRODUCTIONS. In the Whangarci Society’s production of “High Jinks” this week the name of the character “James Jeffries” was altered to “Thomas Ileenie.” “ Paul Jones ’’ is in rehearsal by the Oamaru Operatic Society, with Mr. J. McLean as producer and Mr. F. C. Burry musical conductor. At the last practice 55 members were present. “High Jinks” will conclude a fivenights’ season at Whangarci to-night. Mr Theo. Trezise is producer and Mr A. Dobson music director. Mr Malcolm Somerville, formerly a member of the Hamilton Operatic Society, plays Dick Wayne. Mr Trezise, besides producing, gives a dance specialty.

In the Auckland Little Theatre’s production of Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever” this week the cast was: Simon Bliss, Roberts Tole; Sorel Bliss, Isabelle Lorigan; Clara, Nell Lush; Judith Bliss, Daphne Knight; David Bloss, A. J. C. Fischer; Sandy Tyrcll, Tim Hudson; Myra Arundel, Lola Mcsseler; Richard Greatnam, Cyril Seaward; Jackie Coryton, Fay Reynolds.

The Wanganui Little Theatre Society will present a triple bill early next month. "Danger,” played in pitch darkness, in a gallery in a Welsh coalmine, is a listening play of tense drama. “Pro’s and Cons,” a comedy by Kenneth Barnes, M.A., is a romantic play in three scenes, picturesquely set in India, being the humour and pathos in a household at the lime of the Great War. The third is a une-acl play by Harold Brighthouse, “A Marrying Man."

“It Is the funniest comedy seen in Auckland for a good two years or more, and should have been seen on the commercial stage in the Dominion years ago," says an Auckland paper of "Hay Fever,” produced by the Auckland Little Theatre this week. “It Is the best thing that Noel Coward has written, and contains some of the cleverest and wittiest conversation In the whole range of English dramatio literature."