INTERESTING EVENING AT THE CHURCH SCHOOL

The annual Sunday School entertainment was held at the St. Peter’s School on Monday evening. The chief attraction was the performance of two operettas “Flowerland” (Clementine Ward) and “The Royal Jester” or A Kingdom for a Laugh (W. Smythe-Cooper) by the teachers and scholars under the direction of Miss Fisher and Miss E. Broadbent as accompanist.

The following were the various characters in “Flowerland”: “Miss MacStringer” Miss Lily Gill; “Barbara” Miss Nellie Riley; “Madge” Miss Alice Pinder; “Mrs. Treacle” Miss Katie Norfolk; “Rose” Miss E. Hainsworth; “Violet” Miss Laura Wiley; “Flora” Miss J. Halliday; “Fairy Queen” Miss Isa Lax;

Butterflies: Misses Evelyn Turner and M. Kershaw;

Floral dancer: Miss Edna Gill;

Fairies: Misses K. Rignall, D. Rignall, W. Idle, D. Burt, E. Ward, V. Elliot, A. Walker, M. Buckle;

Dewdrop Fairies: Misses P. Nash, M. Fisher, D. Hurtley, I. Powell, B. Rignall, L. Harrison, K. Ellis and E. Buckle; chorus girls, Misses H. Raynor, M. Welsh, L. Hinton, H. Tate, E. Gawthorpe and V. Rich.

 

The characters in “The Royal Jester” were: “King Ortensis” Mr. J. Broadbent; “The Royal Jester” Mr. Frank Fletcher; “Queen Titania” Miss Lily Gill; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Norman Fitton; the Lord Chancellor, Mr George Armitage; the Prime Minister, Mr. Cecil Wood; the Lord Chamberlain, Mr. J. K. Hammond; the Court Astrologer, Mr. Victor Cox; the Lord High Executioner, Mr. John Kershaw; the Commander-in-Chief, Mr. V. Cox; the Admiral of the Fleet, Mr. C. F. Wood; the Usher, Mr. Albert Platts; Princess Sylvania, Miss Alice Pinder; Puck, Miss Isa Lax;

Ladies in waiting: Misses E. Hainsworth, L. Wiley, K. Norfolk and Riley;

Court ladies: Misses E. Hainsworth, J. Sinclair, J. Halliday, M. Abel, F. Galloway, E. Popplewell, E. Walker, M. Hainsworth, N. Westmoreland, M. Wade and V. Rich;

Royal guards: G. Gillford, M. Harrison, M. Barker, E. Ward, O. Ray, N. Procter, L. Verity, N. Wilson, P. Vevers, O. Hainsworth, I. Darnborough and O. Adams.

The operettas were particularly well given, and the performance was greatly appreciated by the crowded school.

Pudsey and Stanningley News December 1921

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