NEW ZEALAND ACTOR.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)

NEW ZEALAND ACTOR.

IN A JUNGLE FILM. DEPARTURE FOR SINGAPORE. Colin Tapley, Paramount contract player, and Clyde E. Elliott, famed for camera exploits In jungle and animal film productions, left Hollywood with a technical crew on May 20 for a sixmon ill sojourn In the country 400 miles norlh of Singapore, filming the jungle drama, “Booloo.”

Ten tons of supplies and equipment were shipped from Hollywood before Tapley, Elliott, and their associates

left for the Malayan jungle. Tapley. .i New Zealander, will l*e I he mil v whil e man in Hie cast of •Rooloo.” Hie oilier players being se- ' heeled from natives living near I lie j not he an animal picture, but a drama | of human accomplishment. 1

ful run of over six months at the Playhouse Theatre In London In 1934. The Society has chosen a strong cast to interpret “Libel." The play will he produced by Miss Bessie Thomson. Women’s Institute Drama Festival. Nineteen teams entered for the Women’s Institute Festival held at Palmerston North this week. Plays, glee singing and folk dancing were presented, the festival extending over three nights. Drama League Formed In Sydney. Renewed interest in the stage, which has already resulted in the formation ' of a Sydney branch of the British ! Drama League, may lead lo the erec- , tion of a national theatre, subsidised by the Slate, says a Sydney paper. The branch, of which Lady Gordon Is president, will have as its object 1 the development and encouragement of the drama. Mr H. Windeyer, K.C., presided at the first meeting. Amateur theatrical organisations in Sydney hope that the £>rama League will eventually result in a National Theatre, in which the works of celebrities could he performed and in which Australian talent would have an opportunity or finding a medium of expression. Junior Drama Festival. The second Junior festival of community drama organised by the South Canterbury Drama League was held in the Little Playhouse, Timaru, last week, before a large and appreciative audience. Four plays were presented by groups of players under 19 years of St. Saviour’s Boys presented a scene from the Life of Drake, set in the Admiral’s cabin with the fleet, at the entrance of Die Strait of Magellan. St. Paul’s Sunday .School children gave a one-act, play in three, scenes, “ Down the Crocus 'runnel.’’ The play is themed on the visit the mortal children make lo the Magical Land of Flowers. Craighead Diocesan School presented I “ Thu Black Horseman,” based on the superstitious fancies associated in the eighteenth century among Hie simple country people of Kngluiul, in relation to Hie Devil. Fid ward Percy’s “ Language of l.ovo " was presented by the Timaru High School Did Girls’ Drama Club.