Patriotic Concert, "Dutch Windmill Land"
Production date
1940
Description
Five girls are posed in Dutch-style costumes in a studio-style setting. Three of the girls wear costumes consisting of short skirts with aprons, short-sleeved blouses, dark-tone vests and Dutch bonnets. The other two girls wear long voluminous trousers with short jackets over shirts, neck ties and tall caps. Standing in the back row are, from left to right, Shirley Marcroft, Merla Morris, Kathleen Watt and Noelene Trotter. Seated on the floor in the front is Betty Richards. The girls are in costume for "Dutch Windmill Land," a dance they performed as part of the Opunake Patriotic Concert on 27 May 1940.
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Public comments
Extract from a review in the Opunake Times: "In the Dutch ballet 'Windmill Land', the Dutch costumes were in the shades of scarlet, blue, orange and green, with white organdie bonnets and aprons. The soloist Mrs D. Trotter, sang the number “Little Dutch Kindergarten,”
- Pam Childs posted 9 years ago.