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llkc'hiJ\alklN‘ at the Humantues Theaise Bex Office There are two television channels in New Zealand â€" number 1 and 2. Both are government owned like our CBC. They even promote shows on the alternate channel. The announcer may say: ... at 8: 25 the music concert will begin but on channel two Miami Vice will be seen . The programs start at noon on only one channel and they all end at 12 30 a.m. It seems about a third of the shows are British which you have often seen on PBS or TVOntario. Another third are American and the bailance are Australian with a very few New Zealand ones except for the news. Many of the programs are not scheduled on the half hour as in Canada For instance, the evening times for channe! One shows on Thursday are: 8:25 p.m. Busman:; 9:25 Between the Lines: 9: 55 Call to Glory: 10: 45 News; 10:50 Late movie program There are no late night talk shows so here is a chance for Johnny Walters of CKCOâ€"TV to come over and start a whole new career. s This is a Canadian golfer‘s haven. In Christchurch alone, there are over 30 courses and they are all empty at this time. The weather is ideal for golfing by Canadian standards but the locals feel it is too nice and do other things in the "summer months®"‘ such as playing cricket, sailing, or going to the ucean beaches. I‘ve been playing on a private course, Waitikiri Golf club, which is on par with Westmount and the green fees are $8 NZ. This course will be host to the world amateur championship and Canada will have a team (since we won it last year). You can teeâ€"off any time without delay . The locals prefer to play from March to November in "their winter." Send items to Ted Reoney c/o Waterioo Chronicle. The official summer holidays came to an end on ‘‘Waitangi Day"‘ (also known as New Zealand Day) which was Feb. 6, the Friday that starts the long weekend. The primary schools started the following Monday and the secondary schools commenced gne week later. Hence, we were here to see the cities all suddenly blossom with all sorts of school uniforms. It seems all the high schools have official uniforms â€" both private and public. Some of the primary schools do too. The tradition of the Britain old school tie"" is very much in evidence which prompts half the parents to pay the private school tuition of about $500 NZ per year. School starts at 9 a.m., one hour for lunch, and ends at 3 p.m x x x surrounded by snowâ€"tipped mountains on all sides with a large lake in the middle and a peninsula strip of land which features a golf course. Drive five miles out of town and you are at Coronet Peak which features a ski area in the winter. We had to motor up about five thousand feet before we reached the bottom of the chairlift and ski chalet. The snow line only starts at this point. The chairlift takes you up another three thousand feet where many of the Canadian ski spectacular Milford Sound and the highest peak, Mt. Cook a m _ "[C90C Queenstown, N.Z. This area is the resort jewel of New Zealand. In some ways it reminds me of Banff in the Rockies or Montreaux in Switzeriand. It‘s the vacation town full of Japanese tourists to such an extent that all the sales (8K5â€"4280 ) and all uther BANS cutets 10 W Hours Monday to Enday. 11 am io 6 pam.. Saturday. | pam. io § pm reserve": same clothing style, same Charleston â€" only not quite as roaring as here in North Ameriâ€" T here was dancing in the aisles at Waterloo collegiate last week as a cast and orchestra played their way through Doug Irving‘s production of Sandy Wilson‘s stage musical "The Boy Friend." The play is set in what the program calls "the Twittering Twenties": the Roaring Twenties as The plot is a simple richesâ€"toâ€"ragsâ€"toâ€"riches romance. At a very proper Finishing School on the outskirts of Nice, France, a lonely millionaire‘s daughter (Chery!l Sumsion) saves her social reputation by writing herself letters from an imaginary suitor. A humble messenger boy (Brad Quinn) appears, the daughter hides her wealthy heritage, and they fall in love. The boy‘s noble parents (Kate Seldon, Marty White) arrive on the scene, his own wealthy past is exposed. love triumphs, and almost everyone in the school (including the headmistress) gets married. The flirtatious students at the school don‘t provide much meat in the dialogue, but they sure can sing and dance. Choreographer Jennifer Frey worked hard on this show, and she gave an excelient performance as one of the daughter‘s twittering friends. Her beau (Andrew Swain) accompanied her through the gyrations of her dance numbers. including ‘"Won‘t you Charleston . with authentic familiarity. Jenna Schiede! and Kulis Stavrou danced their way through a steamy tango. though one did get the impression that it had been conservatively choreographed for a family audience. As the female romantic lead and assistant vocal coach, Chery! Sumsion entertained us with a wonderful, trained voice. She was clearly in a vocal class by herself; it was lovely. Production dance captain and school friend (Cairine McKilâ€" lop), sang an amusing ‘"booâ€"boopâ€"deeâ€"doop‘"‘ song that the audience quite liked. The school‘s maidservant (Michele Hahn) does a splendid job singing "It‘s Nicer in Nice‘‘ full of southern French he only intelligent romantic advice comes I from the women running the school. The inevitable plot complications include the arrival of the daughter‘s father (Chuck Wilson) and the revelation of his wartime (and soonâ€"toâ€"beâ€" renewed) romance with the school‘s headmistress (Jackie Carter). WCI‘s The Boy Friend delightful throwback to Twittering Twenties Two unique features of this show were dancing in the aisles by the cast during one of the songs, and the participation of the orchestra by singing one of the lines from one of the songs. The dancing brought the cast closer to the audience, contributâ€" ing to the warm, family atmosphere in the soldâ€"out WCI auditorium. Proud fathers and perfumed mothers abounded, and the twitter of dozens of school chums gossiping about their friends on stage was a realâ€"life echo of the "Twittering Twenties‘"‘ we were watching. Have times really he backdrop for all three acts was a lit cloth I cyclorama. With a cast of 30 forced to cross and reâ€"cross behind it, it rippled and waved throughout the show, distracting attention from the stage. This was a surprising and glaring oversight in an otherwise technically good show; one can only surmise that fastâ€"paced cues and the narrow space (five feet) forced the actors into running backstage rather than moving slowly. to "vanish" disconcertingly behind a wall that you thought they were in front of eter Smith led a 15â€"piece orchestra, dressed P in period straw hats and vests, to accompaâ€" ny the cast. Despite some persistent flat notes in the string section, the band did well. An occasional whimscial wahâ€"wah in the brass section almost threatened to have the audience laughing during the songs, but the band never drowned out the singers. The cast faced front and was always clearly audible, both when speaking and when singing. The set for the Finishing School was a series of delicate sectioned windows and doors spread precisely across the whole stage. The color of the support wall and the color of the backdrop matched so closely that at times one couldn‘t tell which was which. As they walked, actors occasionally seemed leering noble father, and also the delightful interaction between Chuck Wilson as the millionâ€" aire father and Jackie Carter as the coquettish headmistress. The rest of the gaggle of school friends and their beaus (Amber Golem, Alicia Hendley, Jon Dorfman, Kevin Wilson, Tim Pascoe) showed excellent concentration and focus on stage. To the directors‘ credit (Walt Brooker, Rick Bond, Jackie Carter), even when not speaking or singing, they acted their parts. As pupil after pupil turns into giggling romantic mush, she remains the most interesting and lively character throughout the production (which just shows that it pays to stay single). musicals, so one can hardly criticize the simplistic and obvious dialogue or the silly characters. The audience like Marty White‘s portrayal of the T885 4280 at