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,"

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