LESLIE HOWARD

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21158, 6 July 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

LESLIE HOWARD

TO REMAIN IN ENGLAND HAD ENOUGH OF HOLLYWOOD Leslie Howard is in an interesting I position at the moment. It may not have occurred to you, but it is a fact j that Mr Howard is one of the few j important actors left in England. If he wanted, he could go to Hollyj wood and earn an enormous amount !of money. He doesn’t care to. j He has had enough of Hollywood ■ methods. He is more than happy to stay in England. Very soon he j starts work on a film. He is the J independent type. I He is, if he wishes to be so, the I most popular actor in England. He . can, if he wishes to make it so, inJ fluence the trend of British pictures i for the next ten years. I Mr Howard is an example of an ! actor who has been once bitten and is , three or four times shy. So shy, ; indeed, that he has retired into his shell and ha.r'gone all whimsy and i introspective.

Winter Show Hall, Hamilton, tonight. The plays so far presented have been very interesting and entertaining, and the standard of work has been high. My congratulations to all concerned. The two winning teams will compete at Auckland in the semi-final of the competition. Inter-house Drama Festival A step forward in the encouragement of dramatic endeavour was made by the Palmerston North Little Theatre Society in organising an inter-house festival which took place in the Little Theatre on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Business firms of the city took up the idea most enthusiastically, giving their staffs every encouragement, and no fewer than 13 teams were seen in action. The one-act plays were judged by Mr H. C. D. Somerset, principal of the Community Centre, Feilding. Following were the teams:—P.D.C. (3), Collinson and Cunninghame (2), Libertyland (2), Rosco, Collinson and Son, H. L. Young, Miss Rae, City Library, Watchorns Ltd. Auckland Drama Festival The Auckland Elimination Festival in the National Centennial One-Act Play Competition will be opened in Auckland on Tuesday, July 9. The climax to the festival will be the provincial semi-final on Saturday. July 13. The two best teams from the Waikato will take part. Auckland has 10 entries in the festival. They are: Auckland Repertory Theatre, “ Cartoon Auckland Judean Dramatic Club, “ Created Auckland Teachers’ Training College, " Sunday Costs Five Pesos Avondale Women’s Institute. “ White Queen, Fed Queen Auckland Centre Women’s Institute, “ Get Out of Your Cage”: Ellerslie Women’s InMi tut e, “Number Ten”: Grafton Shakespeare and Dramatic Club,

| “Half an Hour”; Northland Players : (Whangarei), “ Witch’s Brew Sheridan Players, “ Anti-Clockwise ; and W.E.A. Dramatic Club, “ Riders to the Sea.” j The adjudicator for the elimination festival will be Miss Margaret Barr, ' and for the semi-final Miss May Maci donald of the Napier Repertory The- ' at re. | Dunedin Playbox I A sparkling farce, “Room Tor ! Two.” was staged by the Playbox j Players at Dunedin last week, under J the direction of Walter Russell-Wood,