'The chief figures are Marcellus, a centurion, and Alban, an officer, serving with the Roman armies in Palestine. As the play progresses Alban learns that Marcellus, the libertine, has caused the death in Rome of Cleonice, Alban's intended bride, and he plans to kill him; but, as it happens, they are quartered in Bethlehem on the night of the Nativity and the divine irradiance of the Holy Motherhood so works on Alban's angry heart that he spares the wretch. In Mary, housed in the stable below the room where the officers quarrel, the pagan soldier sees the divine quality he had worshipped in his Cleonice' ('Polygon.' 'Two Local Plays,' p. 15).
'The judging of the plays submitted for the one-act- play competition sponsored by the Repertory Club, was completed yesterday, and the results were announced as follows...'
A preview of the forthcoming Perth Repertory season of four one act plays. The programme included two works by local authors - The Queen's Marie (Phyllis Tweedie) and Centurion (Alexander Turner).
'To make excuses for local products or to treat them on a different level from any other products is to insult. So, it is hammer and tongs for the two plays by West Australian writers which were presented by the Repertory Club at a club evening in the Assembly Hall last night. The first play was The Centurion, by Mr. Alexander Turner, of Pingelly. It gained second place in the club's short play competition earlier in the year.... Miss Phyllis Dorrington Tweedie, the author of The Queen's Marie, the second play, is more capable than Mr. Turner in many directions, but emotion is the quality she lacks...'
'To make excuses for local products or to treat them on a different level from any other products is to insult. So, it is hammer and tongs for the two plays by West Australian writers which were presented by the Repertory Club at a club evening in the Assembly Hall last night. The first play was The Centurion, by Mr. Alexander Turner, of Pingelly. It gained second place in the club's short play competition earlier in the year.... Miss Phyllis Dorrington Tweedie, the author of The Queen's Marie, the second play, is more capable than Mr. Turner in many directions, but emotion is the quality she lacks...'
A preview of the forthcoming Perth Repertory season of four one act plays. The programme included two works by local authors - The Queen's Marie (Phyllis Tweedie) and Centurion (Alexander Turner).
'The judging of the plays submitted for the one-act- play competition sponsored by the Repertory Club, was completed yesterday, and the results were announced as follows...'