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"The Joker was good, and he had spirit; but perhaps he was a bit too operatic. I didn't mind because I thought he mlght burst into ‘Figaro’. I was almost walt- ing for an Aria at any time.

"'l‘he Prologue gave it a touch of color, but I thought the Prologist too arm conscious. He didn't seem to know what to do withhlshands. Ha said ‘Don't drop a pin, the Play is going to begln’,—-but it didn't. We waited quite a long time before ft began. Now the Prologue shouldn't tell a lie. If ‘the Prologue says the Play is go- ing to begin and it doesn't begin, we will never believe In n Prologue again.

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‘ic ‘n . had the merit of slickinc Yo r1.- author's text, but here a" llu i‘. ncrxled speeding up.

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l’ ‘rink. see anybody ‘This is not the v where you need fade- l"'1rv'r try t0 glve that ima- - r r. '0 a drama frat

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1r. not ovcr- L’ tllclr story.

. .>.\. Auvuurv, - have Ill-cu clcar- .- rmplc. I fccl wcak part 0f it. v. . cxccllcnt, rrwpcmlblc d"- Thc cmirs were ftmg as a whole. other local-confin- t of the stage. Sup- ...‘ hark curtains. at ha, OllC had r1. ll would tfllflSll of colnur Pk! n0 enormously. 01y touches in ' : the -!~~ clnractcrs. as well "umw. was appropriate. '. ("c pncc. was L00 l.’ vu ).:1\'c par-c in a pm- u "p11 wu yo‘, awvay With F10 1' 11'“ will think vnu

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not apply i0 tho all» was wcll a- ‘zr tlu was the rtcccpl. perhaps short. that the ""1 played, and .5 theirs.

, mléiCd, where Ada breaks out 1111.0

needed more ‘attack’. He was the gentleman who ‘stole the tarts‘ and I didn't think this Knavo ofl-Iearts had the guts to steal anything. He was ficlgcting a lot. He must not do that at all because ft distracts the audience's attention. Always stand firmly on your plns 1f you want to be on the stage.

"The Queen of Diamonds was a very nice queen; but for the action of the play I thought she should be more of a schemer. She would have been much better if she had not been so slow.

"The Queen of Hcarfsf thought. spokc out. well; but at times slzc lacked repose.

"I did not. like the grouping Just before the end, with all the char- acters in s line. Ever-y movement in a play should beplctorial. which means that. it should be nicely grouped and arranged. The group- ing at the very end was excellent. but what I think the producer was doing was that he was anticipat- ing the and before he reached it.

"At nm two 0'16 of the char- .:.-.'wrs seems to luve been on the vrrollg side of the stage, and had to run around the back and come 1n at the other. The only reason I am objecting to that 1.1 that he may have arrived Just 1n time to save the situation. And he shouldn't have disturbed the back curtain 1n his transit.

"Two things impressed me: the cleverness of the idea, and the pfcturesqueneea of the production. I thought the ending aLso was splendid; that was the way to clo it

""My remarks are intended to help. I hope they do."

"VINDICATION" By Leonard J. Hines and Frank

1118

Presented by Little Theatre Guild of Summerslcle.

Scene: ’ Living Room 1n Tene- ment House 1n any large clty sit- uated near the County Gaol; a. winter's morning 7.30 a.rn.

lvLrs. Nissan-Kathleen Cameron.

Ada. Mason-Eve MacNaught.

Fred Mason-J. Watson Mac- Nnught.

Mrs. Recves~fvonne Arsenault.

Rev. Jams‘ Douglas — George Clc/rv.

Director-Natalie Wilson.

Makeup-Florence Wells.

Busfnms Manager and prompter —A. R. Brennan.

Stage Manager-W. R-olxert In- man.

“This is really an old warrior of a play", Mr. Morley said. "I have seen it in so many places, all the rvnv frcm Imnclon, Ontario, tol London, England. ll. was the play which was fi\'-'2\l'(lf‘(l the first place in the Halifax festival three years ago. It was very we'.1 done there. 1t is a strong play and nearly ai- ways effective. I thought. tonight that the setting had the essentials. All the colors were there. We had a yellow door, a green dresser, a brown ivlnclmv and a very, very rcd table cloth. There was no harmony. 'l‘l1e colors were fight.- mg each other all the way ihrough, Just like China and Ja- pan.

"Realism was the note 1o aim at. and this medley of colors looked like a (fall's house instead of a tenement house. I am sure that 11o tenement. house would have looked quite .‘»0 brilliant. It ruoulrl have been so easy to have put a coat of dull paint over those lhingq. and mnkc them look not (luitc so pretty-pretty.

"Whcn the curtnln went up [he

slam- was rather dark, hut. it. luurzhtcncrl m. flu" nmrvuuc: advan- rcd. l want in mtriniciid that

touch of il1c produccr.

"Speaking generally, the players spoke wcll. The ladies seemed to be holding back but. (hr-y war-med up when the Parson came in. They had fine voices which ll. was good to listen w.

"There was a failing in the pro- duction to which I have rcfcrrcd in connection with this afternoon's plays. It was too slow. And I did fcel that the big climax was

lwstcrical laughter. On the stage she says, ‘Leave me alone!’ but I didn't see why. She stood where nobody was floing anything to her. She should have had some reason for saying that, which wasn't ap- parcnl. Laughter, whether it be genuine or hysterical, is a very difficult thing to bring of‘! prop- erly on the stage. It seemed to me to be forced tonight, though oth- erwise her performance was good.

"I think tho bit of business with the knife was poorly manag- cd. It would have been better if Ada had been fnthis position, (Mr. ltflctlcy‘ illustrated the action) in- stead of aeclnc tlu knlfe on the ...‘"Ie and picking it up as it ahe- were going to put. some butter on some bread.

"Mrs. Mason had genuine feel- ing. If she hadbeen three times as quick it would have been splen- did: but she was slow. And why that wig? It was so obviously a wig! People in their circumstan- ces really couldn't afford a wig. you know. The point I am trying

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n wig. It must look natural. If you can't gel; a wig that looks natural, I see no objection to your own lmlr.

‘"1 liked the Reverend Douglas. He was a sincere, comforting sort of fellow.

“Fred Mason played up perhaps better than any of the players 1n the first part. lle seemed really anxious about things.

"Mrs. Reeves I thought filled her small part appropriately.

"Many small points of the drama were inclined to be missed. May I, say, however, that this play was

ings as much as formerly, that is because I um getlrug hardened to hanging. I am beginning to thlnk that an Adjudicator loses all the

Morrisw. Lloyd Martin. Klnrms

l cabough, High Bank.

Dance-Ken MacDonald. Bu!

Rlver.

Singing fishermen-Stanley Dal-

ton, Burton, Lot. T, and Sidney Stewart, High Bank.

lt-eadng-Walter O'Brien, Bristol. ‘rrio-David McLeod, Kinross. Ico Pleasant Grove, and

singing Ffsbennen-Isldney Stew- art, High Bank. and Russell Ben-

better given than many a produc- | Dmlogue-Mlss Bertha Melliah, Lion I have sccn before, and ' Montague, Verna Hayes, French though 1t dld not lmrrow my fecl- River.

Instrumental music-Harry Cous-

ins, Joe McPhee and Charles Mc- Lean.

Ffnal social evening for students

finer feelings! “THE SECOND LIE"

Ecclestone mcKcy

stair MacLeod. ‘ Rogers.

—f-lester Wood. Ilddy Hay (assistant to Marlin) --Neil Higgins.

Kenzie.

letter.

Director-R. Haze-n Wlgmore.

3fakc11p-—.'\. lif. Douglas.

"This play lus place 1n the 1:15- tory of llic <1 .11.... 'l‘l1cllartlinu.<c was about the first theatre to eu- coilrage drama in Canada and two n! the earliest plays presented Bl the llart Home were ‘Brothers In Arms‘ and ‘The Second Lic’. Thu. therefore, ls one of ‘he first of the Canadian plays since Canada de- cided to have its own drama. '

“In this production I much pre- ferred the lighter side to the more tragic skis. Frlrlle Hay I thought rvas r-t .311‘... 11:. for rte pill bus- inesn,—-I just couldn't swallow it. I thought it was done for stage ef- icct. The situailon seemed artf- ficlal and unreal.

"The set had the essentials wilhout it being particularly inter- esting. A few details might have helped. The window on the right looked a bit of a. mess. I couldn't understand why the doors and the windows seemed to be in the same place. A little ingenuity on the part of the director mlght have overcome that. 'l‘l1ere seemed to be so many entrances and exits.

"Then tirere was that marvel- lous little cupboard. It seemed to have been put there Just to hold that one capsule. If you had a cupboard for every article you would require a pretty big hcilse. “The furniture was placed so much down the stage that it didn't give quite the illusion of a room. "At the risk cf boring you, I must again call attention to the lack of pace. It was too slow. We must have pace in the drama. The play got; very tired. and it seemed every now and then to be stopping for a resi. I even harl the horrible suspicion that the players were someiimcs forzctling ilicir lineal

"Martin Scion scemcd t0 be much too nice a fellow to play such a dirty trick on his wife. I wanted to see his cunningness. The man we saw was too good a chap to poison hmrself out of spite. And I should like tn warn him of thc habit of looking at the ground. "That. applies to the other charac- ters as well. There was a period when they scam to have forgot- ien lllclr lincs and l’ ncncltred if by some trick or other they were written on lilo floor.

"I would like to mention for a moment -where the drama could lmve been emphasized rather eas- ily. That was when Martin had the pills iu his l1anci and was go- ing to show them to his wife. He should have advanced towards her in thls fashion, holding them uh- dcr her nose. It needed a. little nmlodrama. to put that over.

"I thought Jane Seton had poise and repose. She was good, but she needed pace.

“Another who xvns too slow was Carrie; very gcrxl to look upon-I looked at her very oftcn-—but she was so slow.

"Dr. Mason I thought needed a liiile more ginger. I really was afraid that he was going to die just like the other fellow. How- ever. he survived!

"Speaking about lvfnrtin, didn't somebody on the sirlgc remark that. his death was vcrv SliIldPli? ll. was! Aud 111-. rcruucrl to know (xaclly how ll!‘ v.'.~.<. noun: in do it. H0 (lid it. uccurdintzly m record lime-quite an old hand at (lying!

“The Cormablo seemed to be very unconcerned. He didn't even go over to the body. Well, I sup- pose he knew his maul “That is all I have w say about the szcolicl play tins cvctiing. It. did lutcrcst mc. I may have punched my points too much, be- cause there was a lot of sincere work in the presentation."

"THE VISION AT THE INN"

From "The Maid" by John Buclmn Dramntlzccl by Susan Bilchnn Presented by the Liguorlnn Players.

Scene l: ‘The Ilulcl of the One Raye 1420.

Sec-no If: Same evening: of May 30, i431. almost 2 ycars iaicr.

Catherine Dc Bf‘l\llIl'lRl10ll‘.—Mfll'y Moran.

Guy do Laval-Pius Callaghan.

Cuthrrmz (firing wmnanl-Caro- linc Kcuny.

The Hoeucss of the Ouc Raye- Alice Morris.

Joan of Arc-Eileen Ofiallornn.

Mnknup-Invusn Pauli.

Clt-tumcs —l1_v a Llguorinn Slucly Club.

\V11rdrnbc-.Dornlhy Kirwnn.

“T'hl.<." Sllld Mr. Mcrlcv. "is n sincerely written play. To mo its infcnflons were better than its achicvcmcnts. I don't think it in reallv dramatic. It 1s more a slate- menl of facts than drama. Drama. depends on suspcnsc. Vet this work has qualify: ihcrc is something

to make ls that you must not have a wig on the stage that looks likl

in the vrrlling which w mwl ml- mire. "The set was o1: 2'

A Canadian Play wrltten by Isabel

Presented by the Trinity Players. Martin Seton (a drugglsU-All-

Jane Seton (his wife) — Beth)’

Carrie Andrews (niece of Jane) l

Dr. John Mason-Rev. AB. Mac-

Constable Buckley-Alfred Link-

DirecloF-Rev. C. Moreen, CSSR.

taking the present courses w1ll be held next Thursday evening 1n Prince of Wales College Hall. 1t was announced.

arranged. I don't lmow 1f ft was all correct period, but 1t looked ef- fective. It dressed the stage Well. X I dld think however that the f1re- 1 place was a little over-painted. It l looked to me as 1f ft had a. disease of some klnd.

“One very good thing about the production was the diction. The players spoke well, but ft seemed to me that they were reciting their parts. That may have been because the play is difficult. They didn't have enough things f0 do. Also the language ls not colloquial.

"Did you notice how Guy came in the centre and declaimcd to you? lie was quite unconscious of rue lady to whom he was speaking. 1 suppose that would be bad man- uers even in those days. I would like to warn him too about the way he used his hands. He was foo conscious of them. But that 1.! one of the difficult things to avoid 1n acting.

,'And them-his wigl It was sup- posed to be a. natural growth of hair but 1t didn't. look like it to me.

“Also, he came 1n and someone said something about hlm being covered with dust. I looked for the dust, but I didn't see any,

‘"I‘hen too, at his request ‘Give me wine" he ls given wine and he lust takes 1t and drinks it. One can't afford to take that time on the stage unless ft is very unper- tant to the drama. He should take the wine and sip it, and when the other person was speak- ing he could go on drfnklng. Tlut would not have delayed the action.

Millionaires ‘And Monarchs Win Games

svmvzv. N. s. Jen. 21 —(0P> —An offensive that beg!!!) “Jlway through the second period netted Sydney Millionaires five goals and a 5-4 victory over Glace Bay to- night in o. Cape Breton league hoc- ke gazne.

ghee Bay led 4-0 at the 10- mlnu/te mark of the middle period.

North Sgdney Monarcllu dul- ‘ " Reserve 1n the other game scheduled to retain their second place position behind Sydney.

SUMIMARY First Period

1. Glace Bey, G. Murray .20

2. Glace Bay, MacAdam 11.10

3, Glace Bay, Robert Andermn 15.00 _

Penalties: D. MacNcil, Powell.

Second Period 4. Glace Bay. Rod Anderson 4.- 0a

Additional Sport

Leaf Players Purchased By S p ri n gfi el d

(By 'l'lu- (lanadian Press)

Purchase of i-vro DIBYBFB 1mm T°l"' onto Maple Leafs of the NBUOHBI Hockey League was announced t0- dziy by J. Lucien Garneau, owner o; the Springfield Indians of the International American circuit. They are Charley “Cl1uck" Corri- gan and Fred Miller. Miller will not join the club until the end of

the present season. He ls on loan to the New Haven Eagles for the remainder of the season.

Coach Indians said that Corrlgan would be used at fight wing 1n tomorrow night's game.

$ 2 5 , O O0 I S ‘Turned Down

5. Sydgey"; Eslabrooks (MacGlb-

bun) 10.2 6. Sydney. K. MacNeil 18.00 Penalties: D. MMNell.

Tam! mm 7. sydnoy. Malcolm (Nicholson) 4'27 Sydney, MacAdam (Nicholson) 6'? Sydney, mu MacDonald (Es-

tabrooks) 12.10 Penalties: None.

SUMMARY Flnt Period 1. Northside, W. Murray 10.0, 2. Northside, Montgomery (S. Clark) 11.10 Penalties: None. Second Period

“Catherine do Beaumartoir had good moments, and I liked the ‘lflrlng Woman. She and the Hoot- css made a good beginning.

"The costume of Joan I thought was too glittering-not s practical one for the soldier man or woman. It was too much like the costume of the principal boy ln the Christ- mas pantomime. It would have been better. too. 1f Joan had spoken more naturally. Her deliv- ery inclined to be slug-song. And what a- long wait whilo she wok ofI her cloak, belt and things. The same criticism applies here, as to the business with the wine. The play should have been going on all the time.

"'I'he lighting elect at the end clld not quite come ofl’, but the idea was good.

“I think that the production was ioo slow and lacking 1n tempo, but against this I want to put the marked sincerity of the play." Mr. Morley then proceeded to‘ stress the importance of the drama. He said he hoped some day to see an Emiplre Drama Festival. After Paying tribute to the encourage- ment shown by His Honour Lieut- enant Governor DeBlola, and to (he efforts of Judge Palmer. Mr. Charles Jenkins and other ofliclals of the Festival, he proceeded u;