Shakespeare Played By
p. 42 · Read in the full issue
Makogai Students
A CONCERT which was given recently by the schoolboy patients at Mako gai Leper Station, has raised £l3 for the Red Cross Fund for the relief of necessitous children in Britain. The pro gramme consisted mainly of a series of scenes from the “Merchant of Venice,” translated into Fijian by Mr. Ernest Wolfgramm, assisted by Paulo Howailagi.
The Sisters at the Station helped to dress the boys in elaborate costumes made almost entirely of paper.
The main parts in the “Merchant of Venice” were taken by four Fijians, three Cook Islanders, and three Gilbert Island ers. The Duke was a Gilbert Islander.
Antonia, Shylock and Bessanio were Fijians, and Portia was a Cook Islander.
Mr. Les Russell and Mr. Desmond Carew, former residents of Fiji, who were cap tured at Singapore, and Sister Maureen Carew, who was taken prisoner at Hong kong, were all reported in April to be alive and well.