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"Mine Hostess"
Colour, gaiety and laughter are the main ingredients of "Mine Hostess", the New Zealand Players production to be presented in the Opera House next Tuesday.
This is the first production for the Players of Roy Hope, the new artistic director, from England, who has succeeded Stafford Byrne in this position.
The leads are played by Robin King, of Palmerston North, and Thane Bettany who hails from the English stage.
Robin King, Thane Bettany, Peter Adams and Henryka Holender in a scene from the play, which is set in "The Plucked Pigeon", an inn in Florence, in the year 1751.
Robin King as Mirandolina. Miss King, after a successful interval on the English stage, returned to New Zealand in 1957, since when she has conducted the Women's Hour on the Palmerston North radio station.
The comedy love plot of the play involves Kevin Woodill, Peter Adams, and Robin King.
One of many comedy scenes from "Mine Hostess".
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