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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 3. March 19 1968

[Comments from the editor]

[Bob Lord is in charge of Salient's drama reviews. His name has been left off the credit list in error. However some questions about Derek Melser have satisfied me that he is in every way suited to drama reviews in Salient (except, perhaps, in his not being a student).

Mr. Melser has graduated from Victoria with an M.A. in Philosophy, has for a number of years displayed an active interest in theatre in Wellington, and is a former editor of the literary magazine, Argot.

The brevity of the review and its failure to adequately substantiate all its points is my own fault. It was written to a very tight deadline because I wanted it to get into the first issue of Salient which was published before. The Promise had finished its showing. This eventually proved to be impossible. Perhaps to the satisfaction of the Drama Club.

Successful runs in Europe and England seems to be no criteria. I believe The Sound of Music is popular, and Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is in its fifteenth year in London.

It has been suggested that if use of "professionals" is responsible for the standard of Drama Club productions, it may be desirable for Salient to continue to refrain from using unprofessional reviewers.—ed.]