THE Hythe life-boat crew and their friends gave their third entertainment last February.1 This time it was a revue in four scenes called "Lifeboatania." It began with a representation of a storm and a rescue so realistic that the audience found it alarming. As they were waiting for the curtain to go up, the hall was plunged into darkness.

Thunder rolled; lightning flashed con- tinually. The maroons sounded. The waves were heard dashing on the beach. The life-boat crew rushed through the dark hall and disappeared; and then, above this noise, came the i "For the previous entertainments see The Life-boat for September, 1933.

sound of the familiar orders as the life-boat was launched.

The curtain then rose on a fisher- man's cottage, and a little love drama of the life-boat service, with comic relief by a parrot. The second scene was an amusing skit on the experi- ments with a wireless set for life-boat work which have been carried out at Hythe, and the third was called "Mid-Ocean Murder." The final scene showed the crew at work on the beach, but very ready to break off in order to tell a tale or sing a song.

Two performances were given and brought in over £35..