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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 11. June 21, 1939

Three Act Play

Three Act Play.

For the second production this year the Dramatic Club has chosen the American Pulitzer Prise Play by Edna Ferbar. "Stage Door." Although parts [unclear: of] it are not written in a very serious vein. It's chief virtue is that it is true to life. It has for its setting a boarding-house run exclusively for girls who find their living on and off the stage, and the vicissitudes of these girls In their search for "parts" is the main theme of the play. With a cast of no less than sixteen girls. It will give the undoubted female talent at V.U.C. an excellent chance to display their capabilities. Those who saw the film version will realise how much the film was 'adapted' for the leading actresses, and although it was an undoubted success, the stage version is possibly much nearer to the ideas which the author originally intended.

With the fair sex in the majority, it can he imagined what difficulties the producer had to face before the play could be presented to a V.U.C. audience, an audience it is said, that is usually more critical than the Press. The cast are working very hard and there is no reason to doubt that this production will he among the best ever seen at Victoria. Rehearsals have been under way since the beginning of the term, and it can be confidently said that it is a production which every student at V.U.C. should see. The play will be presented In the gymnasium on Thursday and Friday, the 29th and 30th June.

—I.E.A.