-12— SUCCESSFUL FSRFORtiLMCE OF "THE RISIMG GENERATION". It has become almost the recognized practice to eulogise each successive play as "the best ever". Obviously, however, one cannot go on saying this ad infinitum, and as the high water mark was reached two years ago,with "Julius Caesar", we must now aim simply at maintaining that high standard. In the opinion of the writer,and of other critics, this year's play was as good as ever,and was thoroughly enjoyed by an appreciative crowd of about 350. Thus the customary pessimistic expectation that "the show this year is going to be rather a failure",was, as usual, proved to be wrong. Here is the story, briefly: ?;hen Mr. and Mrs.Entwhistle return home after three year's exploration in Central Africa, it is to findtheir son and daughter, Warwick and Winnie, no longer the children they had so fondly imagined them to be,but grown to that age when they begin to feel themselves independent, and much more capable than they really are. This independence is shown at once by their inviting school friends to their home for the holidays,without so much as consulting their parents. Winnie brings Vane Harpenden, a cheeky and attractive maiden,while Warwick invites George Breese, "cap tain of the 2nd Xl",and Walter More11,"editor of the school mag" a somewhat serious and aesthetic youth. Mr. amd Mrs.Entwhistle's horror at this freedom of action is succeeded by concern as to where these "members of the rising generation" are to sleep, and when Walter Morell is found to be bringing his sister, Selina , too, the complications are such that the fhther and mother find it necessary to go away and live with the grandmother for a few days, leaving the house in charge of the imemotional butler, Puddifer(,"in local parenthesis") and the volcanic cook, Mrs, Doddrell. This, by the way, after an indignant outburst on the part of Warwick, in defence of the "rising generation", and in defiance of the old-fashioned notion entertained by his parents that children should be "seen and not heaid'', and that "exper ience" is all that counts.
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