Evidently feeling that the innovations of last month's Club Night were worthy of perpetuation, the members of the Amateur Dramatic Club fore: gathered "again on Thursday night in the auditorium of the Lyceum 'Theatre "for their March—meeting, instead of in the rehearsal' room, as has been the custom in' the past. A series of sketches and one-act plays, inter sparsed with selections from Gilbert and Sullivan operas, was presented members to the Club and their Mr, E, G. Smith-Wright, whose portrait by Sapajou adorned the front of the programme, addressed the company as chairman. He drew attention to the reason for the enlarged Club Night, and asked for the sup= port of any' in the audience who felt the desire to help in future produc tions, either as members of a cast oF in other capacities. His remarks, while humorous in tone, had. serious motive. He suggested thet the aim of the A: D.C. was to make Shanghai more theatre-minded, that a public now chiefly interested in talkies might come. to prefer seeing Mesh and blood actors "mise their cues and fumble their lines on the legitimate stage, The unofficial minutes of the last meeting were read by Mr. Riddell, whose monocle and accent made up for the lack of specific information and convulsed the audience. The sist of his report was that every aspect of February's meeting was simply fizzing".
The sketches included "The Lion Tamer," "The Cure," "The Untorgiveable," "Relativity," "Television," and a Dance Scene. Mr. John Cannan was responsible or the arrangement of the programme and {ts production. The dance was arranged by Carol Bateman. The feeling of the members and their quests was that the use of the main auditorium and stage added much interest and enjoyment.
this now established feature of the ADE. programme—onr.
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