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REPERTORY CLUB

By Ron Whyatt

In 1930 a Repertory Club was formed. As the years went by leading roles were played by Tom Wilkinson, Norm Drummond, Dorothy Stewart, Sam Stewart with Dorrie Aylmore as the prompt for many years.
Community Concerts were held annually to raise funds for local organizations. Tom Wilkinson was the MC (later lan Simpson) and different local artists such as Marg Pozzi, Phyllis Flanagan, Edgar Burridge, Sam Stewart were the vocalists.
Wally Parnell was very clever at putting on skits, Fred Lloyd was violinist, Arthur Napier played the saxophone, Bob Richards on the banjo and Vera Wilkinson was an excellent pianist who played solos.


 


Community singing was very popular with the words of the songs being projected on to a screen, operated by Jack Bennett.
Many years later there was a Crazy Night to raise funds for the local hospital
Ronnie Pollard organized a group of men to perform Swan Lake. Some of the participants were Tim Wellard who acted as the Swan with a broken wing, Bruce Howard, Rod Davies and myself.
This act brought the house down and we had to repeat the performance. Other acts included Mary and Jean Brown who did the Can-Can, Mitchell and Peter Brown sang a duet as well as other comical acts to an audience in excess of 200.”

 

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