WITH THE AMATEURS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21200, 24 August 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

WITH THE AMATEURS

Hamilton Play box Production I The Hamilton Playbox has coml menced rehearsals of George Bernard Shaw’s delightful comedy “You Never Can Tell,” which will be presented at the Civic Theatre on September 26. It has been decided that the proceeds shall be donated to the Patriotic Fund. Hamilton Magicians’ Club Members of the Hamilton Magicians’ Club are very busy making arrangements for an open night to be held in late October or early November. The programme organiser has made it compulsory that every member present at the next meeting shall do a little trick with a piece of paper. Entries For Sydney Eisteddfod A remarkable revival in debating is shown by the entries for this year’s City of Sydney Eisteddfod, which opened on Monday night and will run to August 31. Fifteen teams, representing leading schools and debating societies, entered for the teams’ debate contest, and entries for the dual debate, impromptu speech and duologue are more numerous than those of previous years. For the radio singing voice contests 117 women and 43 men entered, while the operatic arias (men’s and women’s), Gilbert and Sullivan, and open vocal championships for the Melba Memorial Trophies, have all drawn numerous entries. Manawatu Amateur Cine Society The annual general meeting of the Manawatu Amateur Cine Society was held at the club’s rooms, Palmerston North. There was a good attendance of members.

In reviewing the activities of the society during the year, the president, Mr N. W. Thomas, called attention to the increasing membership and the wider range of activities that had been undertaken. The society had given its services freely for patriotic purposes. In making its film library available for patriotic purposes the society had helped in the raising of funds. The society had also given assistance in the screening of educational films sponsored by the Palmerston North Library Extension Service. . Altogether the year had been a particularly successful one and the society could congratulate itself on being one of the largest, if not the largest, of its kind in New Zealand. The evening was concluded by the screening of a film from the camera of Mr H. Jensen. Wellington Repertory Theatre In “When We Are Married,” a farcical comedy set in the West Riding, England, which the Wellington Repertory Theatre has selected for its next production, to be presented under the direction of Leo du Chateau in the first week of September, the author, Mr J. B. Priestly, sets out to entertain with a simple and lighthearted theatrical jest. The action takes place in. Alderman Helliwell’s house in Cleckleywyke about 30 years ago. The worthy Alderman and his two friends, Councillor Albert Parker and Herbert Soppit, are celebrating their silver weddings. They have their photographs “took,’ all a little bit flushed with wine, and are in high glee when the local organist informs them that, because of a technical flaw, they were not married legally and have been living in what Cleckleywyke would undoubtedly term sin. The complications which arise from this disclosure can well be imagined.