BRANCH NOTES.
28
Ths Ypres Times.
HARROOATE BRANCH.
Deepdene Miniature Theatre. Savoy Operas
by Players Three Inches High.
Enterprise obtained the reward it deserved
when the Deepdene Miniature Theatre gave a
series of extracts from Gilbert and Sullivan
Opera at the Theosophical Hall on Thursday
evening.
The theatre is the result of some clever and
industrious work by three Harrogate ladiesMrs.
Briggs, and her two daughters, of Deepdene,
Park Drive. They have constructed a miniature
theatre just like a real one in every respect from
the footlights and orchestra to the back-cloth.
Some of the settings are highly attractive. Another
piece in the repertoire, a children's play about
Cinderella, took, we are told, just about a year to
make, but everything from the coach and horses
to the glass slipper was the last word in minute
perfection. Miss Enid S. Briggs was the founder
of the theatre, and she says she first got the
notion years ago from having a fret saw presented
to her!
In the case of Cinderella, the various characters
appear on the stage, and act in dumb show while
the story is told, but the audience on Thursday
was able to hear the actual voices of the members
of the D'Oyly Carte company in The Mikado."
This was achieved by the aid of a gramophone,
and as the tiny figures were all replicas of cele
brated D'Oyly Carte stars, it was a case when
I am right and you right, and all is right as
right can be," as Gilbert remarked.
We understand it was completed last December,
and previous to Thursday had been shown in
public eight times, including a performance at
the Gilbert and Sullivan Society's Cabaret Enter
tainment in London on September 27th. These
Savoy scenes are given by permission of Mr. R.
D'Oyly Carte.
Mrs. Briggs explained that the object of the
entertainment was to raise funds for the Ypres
League, and outlined the work of the League.
As a result of this effort a sum of ^8 was for
warded to the Ypres League."Harrogate Adver
tiser," November 5th, 1927.)
was placed at the foot of the Litany desk by Miss
Burgess, in the absence of Captain W. P. Burgess,
at present in England.
Beautiful wreaths were also deposited on either
side of the altar on behalf of the British and
American Embassies.
KENYA BRANCH.
Armistice Day was commemorated by the laying
of two wreaths. One, by kind arrangement of
Colonel E. M. Ley, was placed on the Naitobi
Cenotaph by Corporal Slater, and tore the follow
ing inscription "To the Memory of their Com
rades who fell in the Great War."
The second wreath was placed at the Flagstaff
at Nairobi on behalf of our representative, Lieut.
Colonel G. T. Henderson, his three daughters, and
other members of the League.
The Nairobi Cenotaph.
MADRID BRANCH.
A service, which was attended by a large
number of British and American residents, was
held on Armistice Day, November the nth, in
St. George's Church. Mr. A. E. Sharp officiated
in place of Mr. Symes-Thompson, who has left
Madrid.
A cross from the Ypres League,
white chrysanthemums and bay
streamers of dark blue ribbon, bearing the ™,u,|r
Hon in gold lettering Ypres1914-1918,"