UNIQUE EXPERIENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20271, 13 August 1937, Page 9

UNIQUE EXPERIENCE.

__ j WOMAN AS SOLE AUDIENCE. c t A RESIDENT lOF HAMILTON. ‘ c All her life Mrs E. W. Wallace, of t Hamilton, New Zealand, dreamed of t seeing the famous German Passion * Play at Oberammergau. Next to I that she wanted to see the Pilgrimage i Play, and when she arrived in Los £ Angeles on probably the only trip she will make to the United States she met with disappointment. She discovered to her discomfiture that the play did not open in Los Angeles until three days after her steamer was due to sail for her home in New Zealand. She related her predicament to Ruthe (Keane, director of the All-Year Club’s new tourist in- i formation bureau, and Miss Keane t called Lloyd Mitchell, the general 1 manager of the play. t “Couldn’t something be done?” she ? asked. I Something was done, for the Pll- i grimage Play in dress rehearsal play- I ed to a legitimate audience of one— I Mrs Wallace, of Hamilton, New Zea- i land, thereby making some form of a ' record In theatrical history In America. ]