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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 17, No. 3. March 18, 1953

Stop Press

Stop Press

At an Executive meeting on Monday night the President announced that Extrav could no longer be held in the second week of the May holidays. The manager of the Opera House, Mr. Stringer, had notified the Executive that the pencilled-in dates were no longer available; the only alternative dates were from June 1 to June 11.

Informed students will realise what this implies. The available period is the second week of the second term—right in the thick of terms examinations. The traditional association of Extrav with the Capping festivities will be gone. But as Mr. W. Sheat so correctly stated, if there is not an Extrav this year there will never be one. Already the old hands who have had the experience at running Extravs are drifting away from the College. The Executive has found it difficult to find suitable persons to fill such posts as wardrobe mistress; even the post of producer was hard to fill. In 1951 there were over four scripts; this year there are two. We are lucky: Otago University has asked for our last year's script to produce as it has none at all.

The position brightens when we consider that this period falls during Coronation week with the possibility of larger crowds. Mr. Bollinger informs us that the script submitted by himself and others is, in his opinion, much better than the accepted 1951 script in which he collaborated. Mr. Curtin, one of the co-authors of the other script, informs us that his script is of a high calibre, one act in particular being very good. This script is at present being read by the selection committee.

Although the Executive has again booked the Opera House (from Monday, June 1, to Saturday, June 6) the possibility that this booking be cancelled also cannot be overlooked. We are subject to the often-changing decisions of the Opera House management on this matter. There is no other theatre suitable, for the Extrav type of show other than the St. James. Negotiations are proceeding with a view to the tentative booking of this theatre but, if anything, the Opera House is considered to be best for our purposes. It is in the lap of the gods now.