A Little Disappointing

Dramatic Club's Review.

On Friday and Saturday 10th. and 11th. last the Dramatic Club staged its concluding production for the year, a revue show followed afterwards by supper and dancing. Good audiences showed their appreciation of bright spots, notably Guy Bliss a la Stanley Holloway telling the story of "Our Edward" and "the Belle who went from Baltimore to Belvedere." the "Red Terror" and Cora Duncan's solo Eastern Dance.

"Smad" was frankly disappointed. The show did not have the uniform excellence of past productions. Some parts were good, others were definitely not so good. The humour was not up to 'Varsity standard.

The ballets were good, but it must be remembered that not everybody can sing, a fact which was painfully brought to the attention of the audience by one very flat pseudo crooner. Admittedly he was too far away from the piano, but even then . . .

Also John Carrad seems to have slipped. He imposed upon the audience for a few minutes and the result was one low joke so disgusting treat it did not even draw a single laugh.

Enough of that. The cleverest piece in the show was a take off of the harmonising of the Don Cossack Choir, with one prolonged bass note at the end. Everyone enjoyed the imitation of radio 2ZB's dashing style with a nonstop commentary throughout.

"Smad" may have gone expecting too much but next time we hope it will not be too hard to pep up the singing and the humour. The Dramatic Club has a tradition to maintain.