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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 2, March 16th, 1949.

A Wail

A Wail

The Drama Club in the years past has not made full use of their possible scope: instead they have been content to produce a selection of mediocrely presented one-acts, together with a major production or two, in the main experiments, that can only be described as not reaching the highest possible standard that they could have reached. These remarks must be qualified here by saying that their comparative failure was not due to any lack of enthusiasm on the part of the cast and other members, but to a number of other factors, chief among which have been lack of suitable halls, lack of experienced producers, lack of finance (chronic) and the whole complex problem that strikes most cultural clubs—lack of full-time students who are prepared to put the time necessary into such activities to make them the success they deserve to be.

The Drama Club in particular has been faced with the additional problem in the lack of suitable storage space for bulky props, costumes, etc. Such then in general are the problems that have beset the Drama Club in the past and have to a certain extent prevented it from doing full justice to itself.

Will the Drama Club in the coming year widen its activities to their fullest possible extent? I have great hopes for the future of the club and I feel that the energy that members put into the club has now born fruit.

There has even at this early stage been an unprecedented number of enquiries regarding its activities. Further there are already plans being made for an immediate widening of scope. There are great possibilities and I only hope that every one of them will be exploited.