Splendid Production

Since news first filtered through—well over a year ago—many of us have been guessing about "Judgment Day."

Some reports made it a world-beater. From Auckland came the hastily delivered dispatch that, like the Black Sea, it wasn't "all it's cracked up to be." We were eager on Thursday night to watch it present its credentials. Of them later.

First let us congratulate the Training College Drama Club, and Mr. Scott, on the splendid production. "Judgment Day" is a play which demands an almost professional standard both in staging and acting. It could so easily relapse into second-rate pantomime. That they succeeded so well in "putting it across" is all the evidence needed.

Mr. Cowan's set was brilliantly conceived and executed. (He should patent his coat-of-arms just in case New Zealand ever goes Fascist.) If of nothing else, the State Government could be proud of the interior design of its Palace of Justice.