Oscar Wilde remarks in "The Importance of being Ernest" that "if one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad rhusic people don't talk". The interval music for the play was good and well performed, and people did listen. The Atkinson brothers, W. B. Hawkins and J. Ford were an admirable quartet, and the music well chosen and well played. The first night your reporter was there R. B. Atkinson could not play the piano owing to a minor injury in the final House match; but his "substitute" was the Director of Music. So we can congratulate ourselves ! Lastly a word must be said about the Production and‘the Producer. It means almost everything to our School plays to have as experienced and expert a producer as Mr. Burgess. The players know best how much the whole play, and their own interpretation of their parts, owe to Mr. Burgess. How he does it all, handicapped by a small stage, we do not profess to know. But, despite his habitual pessimism where a School play is concerned, he does do it : and "The Taming of the Shrew" can clearly, and by common consent, be acclaimed as a great success. We thank him and all his players for a thrilling evening. C.P. The cast was as follows :Baptista (a rich gentleman of Padua) ... P. L. BARDGETT Vincentio (an old gentleman of Pisa) ... Lucentio (son to Vincentio) Petruchio (a gentleman of Verona) ... Gremio Suitors to Bianca Hortensio ••• Tranio •• Servants to Lucenti Biondello '•' Grumio Curtis Servants to Petruchio ••• i • •• ••• ••••• A Pedant ••• Katharine i Daughters to Baptista 1 ••• Bianca "• ... Widow ... ... ... ... ... Tailor ••• Haberdasher "• 1st Servant "• 2nd Servant •" 3rd Servant •" —• Waiting Woman "' '
D. N. SIMMONS J. B. WEIGHTMAN A. G. D. STAINES R. M. KIRKUS C. K. SMITH IL M. HICK W. R. 1BBERSON T. E. THOMAS P. W. MIDDLEBROOK M. J. BADDELEY
E. 1. MOORE D. J. OLDMAN P. L. BELLWOOD
M. WILLSTROP M. A. BUTTERWORTH P. K. LAPIDOE D. N. SIMMONS C. G. HOWAT P. L. BELLWOOD
THE ST. PETER'S PLAYERS We reprint the following note from the programme of "The 'taming of the Shrew". It may be of interest to the general readers of "The Peterite" :The tradition of dramatic performances by boys of St. Peter's School goes back to the beginnings of the secular theatre in England. We have two records of St. Peter's productions during the Headmastership of John Pullen (1575-1591). 28
