HASTINGS RECOLLECT

Jean Ballantyne

Description

First NameJeanLast NameBallantyneAlternative NameMrs Cedric WrightJean WrightDescriptonJean Ballantyne was born in Hastings to Edith Emily Hartshorn and Herbert Gregory Ballantyne. Trained internationally as a dance teacher she was well known for her children’s recitals, for which she designed and choreographed imaginative and spectacular adaptations of children’s stories. They were major events, playing to capacity audiences in the Hastings Municipal Theatre. In 1950 she married Cedric Joseph Wright popularly known as ‘Mr Theatre’.Date of Birth10 July 1906Place of BirthHastings, Hawke's BayDate of Death3 October 1993Place of DeathHastings, New ZealandCollectionBallantyne Collection

Collection

Ballantyne Collection

Jean Wright (nee Ballantyne) as Commerce Queen in 1952.

Connections

PlaceHastings