Produced plays for Manawatu Repertory Society, Palmerston North. There is a portrait of him in the programme for their production of "Interference" in 1945 (Eph-A-MANAWATU-REP-1945)
Cousins, Frederick, active 1940s
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Manawatu Repertory Society :[Theatre programmes for productions. 1937-1949].
Date: 1937 - 1949
Reference: Eph-B-MANAWATU-REP
Description: Includes: "And so to bed". Produced by Babette Rodgers. Empire Hall. 3-6 August 1940. "Bird in hand". Produced by Babette Rodgers. Empire Hall. 25-28 November 1939 (2 copies) "Dear Octopus". produced by M H Oram. Empire Hall 31 October - 2 November 1940. "The distaff side". Produced by Mavis Mortland. Empire Hall. 22-25 July 1939. "The first Mrs Fraser". Produced by Alexia Rankin. Empire Hall. 21 August 1939. "Grief goes over" by Merton Hodge. Produced by Miss H Prideaux-Pridham and Miss Muriel Richards. Empire Hall 5 ugust 1937. "Heaven on earth", produced by Miss K N Woodhouse; "It's Autumn now", produced by Mrs M D Kilpatrick; "Dark betrothal". Produced by Miss Ruth Lees. "The Harum" produced by Miss Elaine Hall. [ca 1940?] "Lovers' leap". Produced by Fred Cousins. Empire Hall 11-14 May 1940. "A Midsummer Night's dream". Produced by Mavis Mortland. Opera House. 8-13 April 1949. (2 copies) "They came by night". Produced by Fred Cousins. Opera House 3-6 June 1939. Quantity: 11 theatre programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes, sizes below 350 mm.
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[Programmes and fliers relating to plays and dramatic performances in New Zealand. 1940s].
Date: 1940 - 1949
Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-1940s
Description: Includes: 1940: Eighteenth New Zealand Rotary Conference. Empire Hall, 6 March 1940. Manawatu Repertory Society has kindly offered to entertain conference members by presenting "Bird in hand", by John Drinkwater. Producer Babette Rodgers. Programme / flier 1941: Manawatu Repertory Society. "Children to bless you". Empire Hall. 21-22 July 1941. Programme. Manawatu Repertory Society. "Fresh fields". Empire Hall. 5-7 April 1941. Programme. ca 1941-1942: "Fresh fields", by Ovor Novello. Produced by Mrs Elsie Lloyd. [ca 1941-1942?]. Programme / flier with advertisement for 1941 film "Back street" on verso. 1943: Manawatu Repertory Society. Repertory Junior High Schools Group presents "Dark betrothal" by T B Morris, produced by Mrs J Davidson; "Eldorado", by Bernard Gilbert, produced by Mrs Espiner; "Quality Street", produced by Miss K Birnie; "The Day's good causes", produced by Miss J Marshall. Opera House (Palmerston North?). 4 August 1943. Flyer / programme. 1944: Manawatu Repertory Society. "The Barretts of Wimpole Street", by Rudolph Besier, Produced by Fred Cousins. Opera House. 4 November 1944. Programme. Napier Repertory Players (Inc). "Tony draws a horse". A comedy in three acts, by Lesley Storm. Directed by Elizabeth Culford Bell. Municipal Theatre Napier, 20, 21 and 23 October 1944. Programme 1945: Dai Tung Music Society (Auckland). "Human integrity". His Majesty's Theatre Auckland. 27 March 1945. Programme. Drawing Room entertainment by pupils of G Helen Gard'ner. Pioneer Club Room, 18-19 December [1945]. Programme Masterton Little Theatre Society presents a dramatised reading of N C Hunter's farcical comedy "Grouse in June". Producer John Lawson. Masonic Hall, 21 July 1945. Programme /flyer Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society. Three one-act plays: "The phantom ship", by Mary E Matheson, produced by Esme Grindrod; "Charade", by Philip Johnson, produced by Beryl McMillan; "Check to the Queen", by T B Morris, produced by Noeline Myers. Flyer only. 1947: Wellington Technical College presents "Pygmalion", by G B Shaw. College Assembly Hall. 19-22 August 1947. Programme. Community Arts Service presents the C.A.S. Play Unit in ... "The sulky fire", by Jean Jacques Bernard. Produced by Arnold Goodwin. W E A Theatre. Friday 1 August [1947?]. Auckland, Pelorus Press. (Flyer only) J C Williamson Theatres Ltd present "The hasty heart", by Captain John Patrick. Produced by Gerald Kirby; New Zealand production directed by Robert Quentin. Grand Opera House Wellington, 15 March 1947. Programme J C Williamson (New Zealand) Ltd Company. "While the sun shines" and "The hasty heart". Two "admission money" slips for 2nd May 1947, for His Majesty's Theatre Dunedin. WEA Drama Group (Wellington?) "Arms and the man", by George Bernard Shaw. 7 April 1947. Flier / programme. (PR-03-0337) 1948: The Old Vic Company. Tour of Australia and New Zealand 1948. 60-page illustrated book. (2 copies) Old Vic Company. Australian-New Zealand tour. "The school for scandal". Programme. (Three copies: one inscribed "Tuesday October 12, 1948 - I stood in a queue for five hours to get seats". One with enclosed slip: "Owing to the indisposition of Sir Laurence Olivier, the part of Sir Peter Teazle will be played by Mr Derrick Penley") Old Vic Company. Australian and New Zealand tour 1948. "Richard III". Programme (2 copies) Undated 1940s?: Programme: Hutt Valley High School Old Pupils' Dramatic Society presents "In the cellar" by gertrude Jennings, producer John B Stanton; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society presents "Phantom ship", by Mary Matheson, producer Esme Grindrod; Peter Pan Players present "Gran plays trump" by Alic Halsey, producer Percy W Cousins. Flier. Quantity: 21 programmes and four flyers.. Physical Description: Letterpress items, varying sizes up to quarto. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance housed at MS-Group-0450..
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Manawatu Repertory Society: [Theatre programmes for productions. 1930-1959]
Date: 1938 - 1959
Reference: Eph-A-MANAWATU-REP-1930/1959
Description: Includes (at Opera House Palmerston North unless otherwise stated): 1938: "The skin game". Produced by Miss Babette Rodgers. Empire Hall Palmerston North. 1-4 October 1938. Programme 1940: Grand Combined concert by Operatic Society, British Music Society, Little Theatre Society, Repertory Society. 17 December 1940. "George & Margaret". Produced by Mavis Mortland. Empire Hall Palmerston North. 18-21 June 1938. 1941: Programme for first half of 1941 season. 1943: "Heat wave". Produced by Fred Cousins. 7-9 December 1943. "Tony draws a horse". Produced by Mrs E Lovell. 30 July - 2 August 1943 "Tony draws a horse". Horowhenua College Hall. 18 August 1943. 1944: "Love in a mist". Produced by John D Kitchen. 27-29 June 1944 The Repertory revue. Produced by Mavis Mortland; pianiste Marie Moffatt. 1944 (2 copies) 1945: "Daddy Long-Legs". Produced by Mavis Mortland. 11-15 December 1945 (Programme and bookmark) "Interference". Produced by Fred Cousins (portrait). 11-14 April 1945. 1946: "The Dover Road". Produced by Betty Crookenden. 1946. (Includes list of members and list of past productions) "Ladies in retirement". Produced by Fred Cousins. 22-25 May 1946. Programme (2 copies) "You can't take it with you". Produced by Mavis Mortland. 5-9 October 1946. Programme (2 copies) 1948: "Duet for two hands". Produced by Mavis Mortland. 18-22 September 1948. (2 copies) (Contains portraits of Mr T M N (Noel) Rodgers, Mavis Mortland, Dorothy Smith, Ian Watkins, Graham Driver, Lesley Dolby)"Home from home". Produced by Fred Cousins. 19-23 June 1948. "No medals". Produced by Graham Driver. 4-8 December 1948 1950s: "Those pretty things". Produced by Evelyn Davidson. Municipal Hall. 22-23 October [195-?] 1951: "Lady Frederick", by Somerset Maugham; produced by Fred Cousins. 29 September - 2 October 1951. Programme "Random harvest". Produced by Mavis Mortland. 28-30 April 1951 1952: "The happiest days of your life". Produced by Alex Peacock. 24-27 May 1952. 1954: "She stoops to conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith; produced by Mrs Leslie Dolby. St Paul's Memorial Hall, 18-21 August 1954. Programme (2 copies) 1956: "My three angels", by Sam and Bella Spewack; produced by Grace Rose. Repertory Theatre, 18-25 June [1956]. Programme Quantity: 24 theatre programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes, sizes below 250 mm.