Pctkoff, her husband, and he gave an excellent character sketch of this soldier oblivious to almost everything going on around him including the struggle for his daughter's hand. John Lowy as Nicola, a manservant, came over very well indeed. He had just the right posture and gestures for a man with " the soul of a servant and some of the best scenes were between him and Louka.

The production by Mr. Murry was kept moving at a fast pace and showed a clear understanding of what was required. Obviously, he and the cast were helped by the strength of the play and the brilliance of Shaw's dialogue, but he must take full credit for the impact of the production. There were no static scenes and clearly he had brought out the best in his actors. The sets were designed by Mr. Murry, painted by Mr. Tatman and built by Mr. ]Franks and the boys in the Society. These charming sets were outstanding and complemented the witty dialogue, while the excellent backdrop gave an astonishing sense of spaciousness to the stage. The scenery changes were as smoothly executed as the rest of the production and the efforts made by the stage staff must be highly praised. In fact this was an excellent production carried out with the very minimum of help from outside the Society. It shows the high dramatic, standards which can be achieved in a limited time under difficult conditions and with the least possible disturbance to the academic life of the School.

T.J.H.





THE FLOOD

It wasn't completely unexpected. We had a sort of feeling it would come. ‘Well', we said to ourselves, 'there's not much we can do to prevent the disaster; we'll have to face it.' Moving the village was completely out of the question. We had put so much will, effort and time into that village, we just couldn't leave it to be destroyed. Next time we would have to choose a better place for settlement, but now we had to defend it.

We started making a wall as high as we could, hoping that it would not be washed away, and would protect the buildings. We worked like mad. The first step in the programme was to build a fairly high wall all around the village, and we thought that after completing this initial step, and provided we had sufficient time, we would be able to add thickness and height to the wall, and perhaps even construct other walls in front of the main one, with canals between them, so that a comparatively large quantity of water would have to fill those first. Another further item in that emergency programme was to construct an internal drainage system, which
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