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A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand 1930-1950
Appendices
Appendices
1. Distribution of Left Book Club Groups in New Zealand
| Group | Membership* |
| Arapuni | |
| Ashburton | 20 |
| Auckland | 62-150 |
| Balclutha | 19 |
| Blackball | 20-30 |
| Christchurch | 130-150 |
| Coalgate | 20 |
| Dargaville | 10-14 |
| Dunedin | 112-170 |
| Gisborne | 30-80 |
| Glen Eden | |
| Greymouth | 22 |
| Hamilton | 30-50 |
| Hororata | |
| Oamaru | 25 |
| Paeroa | 23 |
| Palmerston North | 59-90 |
| Rangiora | 20 |
| Ruawai | 18-30 |
| Tauranga | 20 |
| Te Awamutu | |
| Te Kuiti | 12-20 |
| Timaru | |
| Wanganui | 16-40 |
| Wellington | 106-300 |
| Westport | 15 |
2. Progressive Publishing Society Bibliography
New Zealand Co-operative Publishing Society
1941
Belshaw, H., A General Survey of Problems of Reconstruction. Reconstruction Pamphlet n.i (New Zealand Co-operative Publishing Society Ltd for the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs)
Pritt, D. N., Britain Marches with Russia (reprint)
Robb, G. D., Health Services, or, Doctors and Hospitals. Reconstruction Pamphlet n. 2 (NZCPS for NZIIA)
Sewell, W. A., What of the New Order? Reconstruction Pamphlet n.3 (NZCPS for NZIIA)
Soviet Youth, a speech by M. Maisky (reprint)
1942
Billing, G. C., Anglo-Soviet Co-operation (NZCPS for the League of Nations Union)
International Affairs Research Group, Fascist Japan, ally of Hitler
Leathem, S., What of Manufacture? Reconstruction Pamphlet n.4 (NZCPS for NZIIA)
Scott, S. W., The Historical Background of the World Labour Movement (first published 1939)
—, Socialist Theory of the State &the Soviet Union (first published by the Labour Research Association, 1940)
Sutch, W. B., Trade with the U.S.S.R. Where Does N.Z. Come In? (reprinted from Better Business, May 1942)
—, Workers and the War Effort
Progressive Publishing Society
1942
Airey, W.T.G., The Road to Victory. The People's Unity against Fascism
Bland, W. B., Slums of Auckland
Dean of Canterbury, Soviet Strength (reprint)
Haldane, J.B.S. et al, Shaping the Future (reprint)
Hearnshaw, L. S., Hours of Work in War-time
Socialist Medical Association of Great Britain, Health Protection in the U.S.S.R. (reprint)
Venereal Disease. The Shadow over New Zealand (introduction by A.H. Nordmeyer, chapters by C. G. Scrimgeour, A.D.G. Blanc, A. Martyn Finlay, W. B. Sutch)
1943
Andrews, I. S., The Willing Horse. The Prize-winning Play in One Act
Barker, A.J.D., Twelve Echoes from France. French poems Englished
Black, D., Tales for Pippa (illus. B. Milne)
Burdon, R. M., Outlaw's Progress
Bush, A., et al, A National Health Service
Curnow, A., Whim Wham, 1945
Guy, C. K., Women on the Home Front. An S.O.S. from Mothers
Holcroft, M. H., The Waiting Hills
Mills, T. L., Verse by New Zealand Children (illus. E. M. Taylor)
Sinclaire, F., Lend Me Your Ears. Essays (second ed.)
Smith, G. M., Medical Advice from a Backblock Hospital (second ed.)
Sutch, W. B., Workers and the War Effort (second, cheap ed.)
Vogt, A., Poems for a War
1944
Andrews, E. S., Close-up of Guadalcanal
Andrews, I. S., Something To Tell
Barker, A.J.D., Twelve More Echoes. French Poems with Verse Translations
Beaglehole, E., Islands of Danger
Carr, C.L., Poems by Clyde Carr
Combs, F. L., Half Lengths of Pupils & People (illus. R. Clark)
Cope, G. F., Christians in the Class Struggle. Progressive Pamphlet n.i (reprint, with foreward by F. H. Robertson and W. E. Barnard)
Curnow, A., Sailing or Drowning. Poems
Fairburn, A.R.D., Hands off the Tom Tom
—, We New Zealanders. An Informal Essay
Findlay, A. M., & R. Dyer, The Bad-mannered Pigs. A read-it-yourself book (illus.)
—, The Little White Gate (illus.)
—, The Ten Chickens (illus.)
—, When I Grow Up (illus.)
Gardner, R., The Industrial Development of New Zealand. Progressive Pamphlet n.2 McDonald, D., Sidi Reszegh and other verses{memorial ed., published for the Feilding Agricultural High School Old Pupils' Association)
Mason, A. (D. H. Mcintosh), Baggie and his Famous Cat Tom (illus. N. Bolton)
Meek, R. L., Maori Problems Today. A Short Survey
Morice, S., The Book ofWiremu (illus. N. Bolton)
Mostyn, I. (A. M. Richards), The Truth About Internal Marketing
Rhodes, H. W., Russia—The Coming Power in the Pacific
Sargeson, F., A Man and His Wife (cheap ed.)
Smith, G. M., Medical Advice from a Backblock Hospital (third ed.)
Sutch, W. B. (with W. L. Robertson, S. Smith & L. D. Webster), Good-bye to Gold. A Guide to the International Monetary Fund
Sweeny, H. J., Wool Marketing and Notes on the Care of Hides and Skins. Progressive Pamphlet n.3
1945
Airey, W.T.G., A Step in the March Towards a People's World. Progressive Pamphlet n.4
Holcroft, M. H., Timeless World. A Collection of Essays
Moore, M., Some Poems for New Zealand
Ost, F., Three Essays on Czech Poets
Ost, F. and R. Meek (trans, and ed.), The Vltava Still Sings. Modern Czech Verse
La Rochefoucauld, F., A Primer of Love. A Selection from the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld (foreword by A.R.D. Fairburn)
New Zealand New Writing n.1 (Dec. 1942), n.2 (1943), n.3 (June 1944), n.4 (Mar. 1945)
3. People's Theatre (Auckland) Productions, 1936-40
1936
8-10 December: Waiting for Lefty (Odets). Avondale Municipal Centre
?: Waiting for Lefty. Trades Hall
1937
10 April: Waiting for Lefty. Hamilton
11 April: Waiting for Lefty. Huntly
12-18, 21-2 June: Till the Day I Die (Odets). WEA Hall
8 September: short adaptation of Waiting for Lefty. Carpenters' union meeting (also performed at meetings of the general labourers' and local bodies' labourers' unions)
1938
25, 27-8 June: Judgment Day (Rice). Town Hall Concert Chamber
1939
18, 20-22 March: Falls the Shadow (Hamilton). Town Hall Concert Chamber
14 May: International Brigade (Mason). Spanish Medical Aid Committee meeting, Regent Theatre
1 October: BMA (Mason). Auckland Unitarian Church
5 November: sketch performed at a rally to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the Russian revolution
12 November: Rehearsal (Maltz); Good Blood—Bad Blood; BMA. Fabian Club Rooms
12 November: Skull on Silence (Mason). Rally
10 December: Squire Speaks (Mason); Eleventh Hour; People's Court; This Dark Will Lighten (Mason). Fabian Club Rooms
?: Rehearsal. WEA social evening
?: BMA. Performed for Labour Party branches and other organisations
?: Perkins and the Butler (Mason). People's Theatre dance ?: Better Bayonets (Mason)
1940
19 March: variety fundraising concert
4. Hamilton People's Theatre Productions, 1939-49
1939
12-14 October: Till the Day I Die (Odets). Waikato Winter Show Hall
11 November: Till the Day I Die. Te Aroha 18 November: Till the Day I Die. Cambridge 25 November: Till the Day I Die. Morrinsville
?: Till the Day I Die. Huntly
1940
9, 11-12 December: Golden Boy (Odets). Waikato Winter Show Hall
1941
2 June: The Ascent of F6 (Auden and Isherwood). Reading (for members only)
9 June: lecture: 'The Ascent of F6', R. Meek
23 June: A Bid for Freedom (Hanlon). Reading (for members only) 7 July: Fumed Oak (Coward). Reading
14 July: We Got Rhythm (Ratcliff); Habit, a scene from Cartoon (Coppard)
24, 26 July: Habit; We Got Rhythm. British Drama League festival
11 August: Battles Long Ago (Bax)
18 August: Some Day They'll Pay (Mackie)
1 September: Dark Lady of the Sonnets (Shaw). Reading
17-18 November: The Star Turns Red (O'Casey). Theatre Royal
1 December: Noel Coward sketch. People's Theatre social evening
1942
27 April: Atonement (Thompson). Reading
25 May: Where's That Bomb? (Gullan and Roberts). Reading
28-9 September: The Plough and the Stars (O'Casey). Theatre Royal
19-20 October: Robert's Wife (Ervine). Theatre Royal Lectures: Toller, Synge, 'Dramatic technique', 'Drama in relation to society'
1943
19 April: lecture: 'O'Neill', with readings: In the Zone; The Long Voyage Home. Centreway Tearooms
10 May: The Moon is Down (Steinbeck). Reading. Centreway Tearooms
24 May: Anton Chekhov evening: lecture and readings. Centreway Tearooms 14 June: Distant Point (Afinogenov). Reading. Centreway Tearooms
28 June: Village Wooing (Shaw); Who Killed Me? (Chantel). Readings. Centreway Tearooms
12 July: lecture: 'Henrik Ibsen—his life and work', Ron Meek. Centreway Tearooms
9 August: lecture: 'The Elizabethan dramatists', Haswell Paine. Centreway Tearooms
page 24130-1 August: The Moon is Down
21 September: The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde). Reading. YWCA
11 October: According to Plan (Parsons); The Willing Horse (Andrews). Readings. YWCA
1 November: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare). Reading. YWCA
15 November: Dr O'Toole; The Boy—What Will He Become? (Brighouse). Readings. YWCA
29 November: Major Barbara (Shaw) (excerpt); John Alladin Lee and his Wonderful Lamp (a musical extravaganza). Centreway Tearooms
?: discussion evening: Paul Green
1944
16 March: dramatisation of de Maupassant story of the Franco-Prussian war
27 July: They Came to a City (Priestley). Semi-production (for members and friends only). EPS hut
10 August: The Silver Tassie (O'Casey). Semi-production (for members and friends only). EPS hut
27-8 September: They Came to a City. State Theatre
1945
14 May: The Beautiful People (Saroyan). Reading. YWCA
28 May: The Ideal Husband (Wilde). Reading. YWCA
11-12 June: Macbeth (Shakespeare). Frankton Town Hall
27 August: Deirdre of the Sorrows (Synge). Reading. YWCA
1946
6 May: Arms and the Man (Shaw). Semi-production. Hamilton Little Theatre
18-20 July: The Sacred Flame (Maugham). Little Theatre
15 October: The Doll's House (Ibsen). Little Theatre
30 November: 'Scenes from Shakespeare's plays'. Little Theatre
1947
1, 3 May: Fumed Oak; The Tinker's Wedding (Synge) (with combined casts of Hamilton People's Theatre and Hamilton Playbox). Little Theatre
6 May: Squaring the Circle (Katayev). Reading. Little Theatre
10 June: In Camera (Sartre). Reading. Little Theatre
8 July: Too True to be Good (Shaw). Reading. Little Theatre
25 July: The Waxen Man (Reynolds). BDL festival
9 September: Kind Lady (Chodorov). Reading, Little Theatre
28 October: French without Tears (Rattigan). Little Theatre
11 November: lecture: 'The Other Theatre, by N. Marshall', H. Paine. Little Theatre
1948
1-2 March: The Mistakes of a Night, 'an adapted comedy by R. Parkes'. Little Theatre
27 April: Peace in Our Time (Coward). Reading. Little Theatre
5-6, 10 July: You Never Can Tell (Shaw). Little Theatre
28, 30 July: You Never Can Tell (act one); The Young Idea (Coward). BDL festival
17 August: The School for Scandal (Sheridan). Little Theatre
7 September: The Guinea-Pig (Strode). Reading. Little Theatre
16 November: Night Must Fall (Williams) (in association with the Morrinsville Drama Club). Little Theatre
23 November: Overtones (Gerstenberg); The Scarecrow (Ferguson). Little Theatre
1949
30 June, 1 July: Arms and the Man. Production by the CAS Theatre Unit, presented by the People's Theatre. Little Theatre
25-6 July: Overtones; The Scarecrow. BDL festival
12, 14 November: The Rivals (Sheridan) (in association with the College Players). Hamilton Technical College Hall
5. Unity Theatre Productions, 1942-49
1942
25 September: According to Plan (Parsons). Lower Hutt Communist Party variety evening
1 October: According to Plan. Rally and dance, Trades Hall
7 October: According to Plan; Where's That Bomb? (Gullan and Buckley), with Russian folk dance and American and Russian folk songs by the Unity Theatre Choir. CP concert
10 December: Royal Inn; According to Plan; Erna Kremer (Bishou). RSA Hall
1943
14 March: lecture: 'The international theatre of protest', WJ. Scott, with reading: The Earth Is Ours (Kozlenko) (performed by Wellington Teachers' Training College students). English Speaking Union rooms
18 April: lecture: 'Mime and satire as a weapon of the theatre', Elsie Lloyd, with reading: Awake and Sing! (Odets). SCR rooms
16 May: lecture: 'The American theatre and drama', Rona Meek, with reading: My Heart's in the Highlands (Saroyan). SCR rooms
?: Waiting for Lefty (Odets). Reading (for members only)
30 May: lecture: 'Unity Theatre, London', Robert Stead, with reading: Life is Calling. SCR rooms
13 June: Paul Green evening, with reading: In Abraham's Bosom. SCR rooms
27 June: social evening with play reading, singing and entertainment. SCR rooms
11 July: lecture: 'The non-commercial theatre, i.e. the amateur theatre, the Soviet theatre, and the Federal Theatre, USA', S. Williams, with reading. SCR rooms
25 July: Distant Point (Afinogenov). Reading. SCR rooms
8 August: lecture: 'The Greek drama', Nance Potter, with reading: The Iphigenia in Tauris (Euripides). SCR rooms
22 August: reading and discussion of three one-act plays. SCR rooms
1-3 September: The Artist (Chekhov); According to Plan (Parsons); The Red Velvet Coat (Niggli). British Drama League Festival
5 September: lecture: 'Anton Chekhov', Howard Wadman, with reading: excerpt from The Russians (Simonov). SCR rooms
18 September: two-act Noel Coward comedy (Fumed Oak?). SCR social and dance
19 September: The End of the Beginning (O'Casey); Sweeney Agonistes (Eliot); Guerilla Wedding; excerpts from The Ascent of F6 (Auden and Isherwood), with folk dancing. RSA Hall
17 October: three-act play reading. SCR rooms
23 October: one-act play performed for CP national conference
31 October: lecture: 'The working class theatre in London', with reading: excerpts from Dirge Without Dole (Mount). SCR rooms
14 November: Squaring the Circle (Katayev). Reading. SCR rooms
27 November: Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck). Reading. Social evening, Grey Cabs Hall
page 244?: Two Gentlemen of Soho (Herbert). Reading
?: The Moon is Down (Steinbeck). Reading
?: Love on the Dole (Gow and Greenwood). Reading
1944
15-16,18 March: Of Mice and Men. Teachers' Training College Hall
7 May: lecture: 'Ibsen', Ron Meek, with readings and folk dancing. SCR rooms 28 May: According to Plan. SCR celebration of the second anniversary of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty. Time Theatre
18 June: Take Back Your Freedom (Holtby). Reading, with folkdancing. SCRrooms
25 June: 'Landmarks of working class drama': readings and extracts from Spender, Saroyan, Steinbeck and The Reichstag Fire Trial (Falconer). Unity Centre
2 July: lecture: 'J. M. Synge, the famous Irish playwright', Blackwood Paul. SCR rooms
16 July: Watch on the Rhine (Hellman). Reading (produced by John Gray). SCR rooms
26 July: The Cave (Galitsky). BDL festival (second place)
27 August: The Cave, with lecture: 'Is there a Jewish problem in New Zealand?', Ron Meek. SCR rooms
17 September: Sur le Pont (Gray); Who Killed Me? (Chantel); The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (Shaw). Unity Theatre
24 September: lecture: 'Hollywood and the status quo', Gordon Mirams. Unity Theatre
28-30 November, 2 December: They Came to a City (Priestley). Teachers' Training College Hall
?: Sur le Pont. Army, Navy and Airforce Social Club
1945
10-11, 17-18 February: They Came to a City (Priestley). Unity Theatre
10-11, 17-18 March: The Artist (Chekhov); The Enemy (Alexander); All Aboard (Bengal). Unity Theatre
8 April: lecture: 'Can the theatre be used as a propaganda weapon?', Rona Meek, with reading: All Aboard (Bengal). Unity Centre
6 May: film screening: Council for Education of Music, Drama and Art. Unity Theatre
20 May: Ladies in Retirement (Percy and Denham). Reading. Unity Theatre
3 June: Too True to be Good (Shaw). Reading. Unity Theatre
17 June: lecture: 'Can the theatre be used as a propaganda weapon?', Rona Meek, with reading: Journey for an Unknown Soldier. Unity Theatre
1 July: Down on the Farm (Brown); The Bear (Chekhov); Something to Talk About (Phillpotts). Readings. Unity Theatre
15 July: lecture: 'Drama and the community', Maria Dronke. Unity Theatre
19 July: Sur le Pont. BDL festival
3-5,11-13,18-19, 25-6 August: Jacobowsky and the Colonel (Werfel). Unity Theatre
page 24516 September: The Hairy Ape (O'Neill). Reading. Unity Theatre
14 October: The Children's Hour (Hellman). Reading. Unity Theatre
28 October: Awake and Sing! (Odets). Reading. Unity Theatre
11 November: lecture: 'Stage make-up', A. Peacock. Unity Theatre 15-16 December: The Feminine Touch (Kvasnitsky); Hello Out There (Saroyan); excerpt from My Sister Eileen (Fields and Chodorov). Readings. Unity Theatre
1946
31 March: Days to Come (Hellman). Reading. Unity Theatre
24, 26-7 April: Juno and the Paycock (O'Casey). Town Hall Concert Chamber
18 May: Candida (Shaw). Reading. Unity Theatre
22-3, 29-30 June: Before Breakfast (O'Neill); The Drunkard (Smith); The No- 'Count Boy (Green). Readings. Unity Theatre
27 July: All God's Chillun Got Wings (O'Neill). Reading. Unity Theatre
14-15 August: New Life (Rice). Town Hall Concert Chamber
1 September: Playboy of the Western World (Synge). Reading. Unity Theatre
29 September: The Laughing Woman (Daviot). Reading. Unity Theatre
13 October: The Devil's Disciple (Shaw). Reading. Unity Theatre
20 October: A Month in the Country (Turgenev). Reading. Unity Theatre
24 November: Bees on the Boat Deck (Shaw). Reading. Unity Theatre
7-8, 14-15 December: The Man of Destiny (Shaw). Unity Theatre
1947
23 February: I Have Been Here Before (Priestley). Reading. Unity Theatre
14-15 March: All God's Chillun Got Wings. Town Hall Concert Chamber
20 April: Close Quarters (Somin). Reading. Unity Theatre
25 May: The Voice of the Turtle (Van Druten). Reading. Unity Theatre
11 May: film evening: The Bridge; Diary for Timothy; Good Neighbours; excerpts from Julius Caesar and Macbeth. Unity Theatre
8 June: Awake and Sing! Reading. Unity Theatre
29 June: The Time of Your Life (Saroyan). Reading. Unity Theatre
20 July: Harvest in the North (Hodson). Reading. Unity Theatre
9-10,16-17 August: The Family Reunion (Eliot). Unity Theatre
7 September: Sweeney Todd—the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Wheeler). Unity Theatre
21 September: In Camera (Sartre). Reading. Unity Theatre
24-5 October: The Plough and the Stars (O'Casey). Town Hall Concert Chamber
16 November: The Glass Menagerie (Williams). Reading. Unity Theatre
1948
10-12 March: King Lear (Shakespeare). Town Hall Concert Chamber
18 April: The Three Sisters (Chekhov). Reading. Unity Theatre
9 May: The Russians (Simonov). Reading. Unity Theatre
30 May: The Apple Cart (Shaw). Reading. Unity Theatre
page 24620 June: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare). Reading. Unity Theatre
27 June: excerpts from Our Town (Wilder) and The Women (Boothe). Readings. Unity Theatre
18 July: The Long Christmas Dinner (Wilder); prologue from Key Largo (Anderson). Readings. Unity Theatre
12-14 August: The Male Animal (Thurber and Nugent). Town Hall Concert Chamber
29 August: Androcles and the Lion (Shaw). Reading. Unity Theatre
12 September: Distant Point (Afinogenov). Reading. Unity Theatre
25-6 September: Richard II (Shakespeare). Reading. Unity Theatre
October: The Male Animal. Napier
18 December: Born Yesterday (Kanin). Reading. Unity Theatre
1949
9-12 March: Our Town (Wilder). Town Hall Concert Chamber
21 March: Our Town. Hutt Horticultural Hall
11 May: Crisis in Heaven (Linklater). Reading. Unity Theatre 8 June: Uncle Vanya (Chekhov). Reading. Unity Theatre
13 July: The Bear (Chekhov); The Price of Coal (Brighouse). Readings. Unity Theatre
19-20 July: The Bear; The Price of Coal. BDL festival
10 August: Village Wooing (Shaw). Reading. Unity Theatre
27-30 August: The Moon in the Yellow River (Johnston). Town Hall Concert Chamber
3-5 November: An Enemy of the People (Ibsen). Town Hall Concert Chamber
6 November: The Proposal (Chekhov); Liberation (Holland). Readings. Unity Theatre
17 December: Dream Girl (Rice). Reading. Unity Theatre
* Figures derived in most instances from the April 1939 and April 1940 annual reports.