Gay Paree in Gisborne

A night of fan and gaiety in the famed Moulin Rouge was the theme of the Gisborne Operatic Society's cabaret evening last month in the Kahutia Pavilion. From their frames on the walls, bowling stalwarts of the past and present watched impassively as can-can girls kicked high amid typical scenery of Montmartre for an enthusiastic audience which ranged from Napoleon and Madame du Barry to cafe strollers and their artist friends.

Most times, Operatic Society members are working to entertain others, On this occasion, their night out in Gay Paree was free of the demands and tensions of stage work, and all present made the most of it.

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Gay poster greeted patrons as Audrey Sinclair took their tickets

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Bubble ballet of can-can girls helped create Folies atmosphere
Photographs by Kandid Kamera Kraft

In all sincerity, "Photo News" takes advantage of these few lines to dip its lid to those talented people, amateur & professional, who ever grace a Gisborne stage. In a world far too preoccupied with the credit squeeze, no power, dearer tobacco, pot-holes, little books, and other worries, they keep open for the rest of us an essential doorway to the realms of fantasy.

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Toby ("on leave from the Legion") and Ruth White at a cafe table

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Cigarette girl Shirley Brown has keen customer in Monsieur Terree Patterson

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George Rawlings ("a Paris taxi") and Jean Waller ("Madame du Barry") won first prize

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Mam' selle Lois Tonks and Monsieur Paul Pollard