Programme 1932 – Drama League Annual Festival

HAWKE’S BAY
DRAMA LEAGUE

Second Annual Festival 1932

Tues. & Wed., Sep. 6th & 7th.

Assembly Hall, Hastings.

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Officers for Season 1932:

Patron:   E. J. HERRICK, Esq.
President:   CECIL DUFF, Esq.
Vice-Presidents:   Messrs A. Giorgi, H. Baird, W. A. G. Penlington
Council:
Mrs. E. Millson   Heretaunga Players
Mr. R. Giorgi
Mrs. C. S. Baker   Waipawa Reading Circle
Mr. F. Tickner
Mr. A. Holland   Hastings W. E. A.
Mr. H. Browning   Maraekakaho Dramatic Club
Mr. D. Browning
Mr. H. T. Russell   Dannevirke W. E. A.
Mrs. E. N. Hogben
Mr. W. G. Beadle   Roachs’ Dramatic Club
Miss A. Wrightson
Mr. Soppitt   St. Matthew’s Dramatic Club
Mr. Rosa
Mrs. A. D. Lynch   Napier Dramatic Club
Mr. W. Laing
Mrs. R. H. Tod & Mrs. Watt   Otane Women’s Institute
Mrs. F. S. Budd   Hastings Reading Circle
Miss M. Cassin
Executive Committee:
Cecil Duff, Esq. (Chairman), Mrs. Milson, Miss Tyne, Miss Macdonald, Messrs Harding, Holland, Priest, Ward.
Treasurer:   Mr. Holland. Secretary:   Miss M. Tyne.
Auditor:   Mr. P. J. Priest.
Joint Stage Managers:   Messrs Mulgrove & A. Brooker.
Front of House Manager:   Mr. R. Cleary.
Organiser:   Mr. Harold Ward.

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Hawke’s Bay Drama League

Second
Annual Festival

THE AIMS OF THE FESTIVAL are similar to the general aim of the League – “To assist the development of the art of the Theatre and to promote a right relation between drama and the life of the community,” and especially (a) to raise the standard of production among amateur societies by affording them the opportunity of receiving criticism from an impartial adjudicator, and of testing their work before a wider and more critical public; (b) to promote a high standard of dramatic appreciation among audiences, and (c) to encourage the progressive element in the amateur theatre. Information regarding the League and its activities may be obtained from the Honorary Organiser –

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1.   Roachs’ Dramatic Club   B Grade
WILL PRESENT
“MISS MARLOWE AT PLAY”
A COMEDY BY A. A. MILNE.
CHARACTERS:
MISS CLARISSA MARLOWE   MISS R. WRIGHTSON
ETHEL   MISS G. JONES
AMBROSE WALLINGTON   MR. D. BEADLE
JOE WORTON   MR. G. ROSE
SCENE – Miss Marlowe’s Flat.

Miss Marlowe is a very successful actress. Joe Worton is her husband. Ambrose Wallington wrongly accuses Miss Marlowe of seducing his son George, and Miss Marlowe plans a novel method of redress. Her scheme proves to be MORE than successful.

Official Opening of the Festival by the Patron,
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2.   Heretaunga Players No. 2 Team   B Grade
WILL PRESENT
“FOLLOWERS”
(By Harold Brighouse.)
CHARACTERS:
HELEN   MISS JOAN WEAVER
SUSAN   MISS GRACE SMITH
LUCINDA   MRS. D. SANDERS
COLONEL REDFERN   MR. H. H. HARDING

A pretty written play of the period of 1859. Twenty-five years previously, Colonel Redfern, had proposed to Lucinda who had said “No,” though not meaning that as the final answer. To-day Lucinda has a visitor in Helen, who has called to announce her betrothal. Lucinda will not receive Helen’s fiance in her house nor will she allow Susan, her maid, to have followers. Colonel Redfern, who has now returned to England, calls on Lucinda and again proposes, but Lucinda has found contentment in her old maid’s home, and answers NO for the second time. The consequences of her first refusal have had their effect on Lucinda, who relents in her attitude towards Helen’s fiance and to Susan.

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3.   Heretaunga Players No. 1 Team   B GRADE
WILL PRESENT
“THE MAN IN THE BOWLER HAT.”
(A Comedy by A. A. MILNE.)
CHARACTERS:
JOHN   MR. R. GIORGI
MARY (his wife)   MRS. T. HANNAH
HERO   MR. R. CUSHING
HEROINE   MISS R. SUTTON
CHIEF VILLAIN   MR. A. McCORMACK
BAD MAN   MR. M. BOSHIER
THE MAN IN THE BOWLER HAT   MR. HOLMES
SCENE – A room in John’s flat.

A suburban couple deplore the dull existence that is their lot. Into their quietude is plunged a terific [terrific] drama of the attempted theft by bad men, of a Rajah’s ruby. The author describes the play as being “a terribly exciting affair.” It is brimful of that quaint and subtle humour for which A. A. Milne is famous.

4.   The Napier Dramatic Club   A Grade
WILL PRESENT
“THE PYRE ON IDA.”
CHARACTERS:
OENONE   MISS GWEN DALTON
HELEN   MISS BETTY ALEXANDER
MELLISSA   MRS. A. D. LYNCH
PYRGO   MISS VALERIE LEWIS
PARIS   MR. W. LAING
EMATHION   MR. JIM HAMILTON
CORYTHUS   MR. JOHN PEEL

Paris, son of Priam, was brought up as a shepherd and married Oenone, a nymph of Mt Ida. He leaves Oenone for Helen. In the Trojan War Paris is mortally wounded and returns to Oenone, who has the power to heal, but she refuses to heal him and Paris dies. Oenone thereupon kills herself.

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5.   The Maraekakaho Dramatic Club   A Grade
WILL PRESENT
“THE DOVER ROAD” (second act.)
(A Comedy by A. A. Milne.)
CHARACTERS:
EUSTASIA   LOSELL DASENT
NICHOLAS   MORRIS AVERILL
MR. LATIMER   HUBERT BROWNING
DOMIMIC [DOMINIC]  KENNETH WILSON
ANNE   SHEILA GRAHAM
LEONRAD [LEONARD]  IAN SMITH

Mr Latimer, a man of impish humour and great wealth, is a philanthropist with an audacious hobby. On the pretence that his house, close by the Dover Road, is an hotel, he uses the power of his wealth by various means to bring run-away couples heading for the Continent under his roof. He keeps them there as his prisoners and guests for a week, as it were on trial so as to give them a chance of changing their minds before it is too late, and endeavours to show each to the other in their least attractive light by ingenious methods of his own. At present he has two couples under treatment, one just arrived and the other about to leave. Husband and wife are thus running away from each other in the same house without being aware of each others presence. This, the second act, shows the adventure in full swing the morning after the arrival of the second couple. Dominic, the butler, should be introduced as the confidential agent of Mr. Latimer.

6.   The Otane Women’s Institute   B Grade
WILL PRESENT
“THE FAMILY GROUP.”
A COMEDY IN ONE ACT
(By Mabel Constanduros)
CHARACTERS:
GRANDMA   MISS F. QUINN
EMILY   MISS T. TAIT
EDE   MISS R. PILCHER
AUNT MARIA   MISS P. SMITH
ARRY   MISS F. WATTS
PHOTOGRAPHER   MISS G. HANNAH
SCENE – A Photographer’s Studio.

It is grandma’s eighty-first birthday, so three generations of the family drop in on local photographer (an excited Frenchman), for a family group.

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7.   Waipawa Play Reading Circle   B Grade
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“A LITTLE FOWL PLAY.”
(By Harold Owen.)
CHARACTERS:
GILBERT WARREN   Mr. F. V. WARD
SYBIL, His wife   MISS MERYL WILLS
MR. TOLBOOTH   MR. F. ADEANE
MARY, the Warrens’ Maid   MRS. C. S. BAKER
ERRAND BOY   MISS MARY MCLEAN
SCENE – Gilbert Warren’s Study, 13 Balfour Mansions, Balham, London.
TIME – Early Evening.

Gilbert Warren is an author, but while waiting for his manuscripts to be published, he and his wife Sybil are very hard-up. The tradesmen refuse further credit, and they find it difficult to keep up appearances before their maid, Mary.

On this particular evening there is practically nothing for dinner and when an errand boy delivers a chicken at their flat (by mistake), the hungry Gilbert succumbs to temptation and orders the chicken to be put in the oven. Shortly after this, Mr. Tolbooth, who lives in the same building, calls and asks permission to use the Warrens’ telephone, in order to expedite the delivery of some poultry intended for his evening meal, and the situation becomes rather embarrasing [embarrassing] for the Warrens.

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ADJUDICATORS MARKS.

The Adjudicator, MISS ELIZABETH BLAKE
will allot marks as under:
Acting 40; Production 30; Stage Presentation 10;
Dramatic Endeavour 20. Total 100.

During the Festival musical items will be rendered by the Orchestra under the direction of MISS MARY COLLINS.

PERSONEL [PERSONNEL] OF ORCHESTRA: First Violins, Messrs A. Currie & J. Warren;
Second Violins, Messrs H. Sanders and K. Dane; Flute, C. Bartle;
Clarinet, O. Shattky; Cornet, T. Albison; Cello, S. Widdup;
Bass, H. Unwin.

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