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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2; No. 6 April 26, 1939

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[unclear: The] ghosts during their eerie lament told of "the pale green light of the moon" and pale green it was. During the ballet and the cavorting of the shades the greenness doubtless helped to disquiet us, but when the ghosts shed their shrouds and relieved their parts, the moon, in sympathy, should have behaved herself and shone with a bright white light instead.

To have been able to recognise the characters' former costumes, as well as their voices, would probably have been worthwhile.

Other remembered incidents—Mr. Nemesis' sulphur which threatened to cloud the issue, Mr. Bliss's almost too authentic cock-a-doodle-doo, and the slightly drunken and uncertain sun branded "Cappicade 1939."

"Comes the Dawn" was a first-class first blush—the break of a day worth watching.