A PLEASANT FUNCTION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1931, Page 8

A PLEASANT FUNCTION

RECEPTION TO MR. HISLOP

A veiy cordial ;iud pleasant atmospheio pen ailed tho leception given at Iho Palm Loungo of the Hotel s>t. Gcoigo jestciday afternoon, >vhcn a. icception was accorded * to Mi. Joseph Hislop iuid ( ' his accompanist, Mr. I, Goodman. Tho party was arranged by the Wellington Society of Musicians in, conjunction with -Messrs. J. «nd N. 'Fait, nrnl tiouble had Tbccn taken to gather together as many lopiesenlafcivo musical peoplo as possible in flic time. Mr. Hanson Cook (president) mid Mr, Trevoi Wisher "(secretary) wcic iv charge, and mado excollent hosts. In his' welcoming speech, Mr.i Cook showed how foitunate Now Zealandeis wcio in tho provision mado for >them musically and dramatically in" thosa visits of great artists, mid said he felt that they wero specially1 favoured in a second \isit from such a great singer qs Mr. Hislop. Ho was welcomed as a friend who camo in a ''great canoe across great waters," and tho speaker ended with a poetic and musical Maori quotation which echoed these sontimonts.

■ Mr. B. 11. Nimmo followed, and as "Chief of tho •Wellington Caledonian Society,'? mado1 a special allusion to tho nationality of tho guest of honour, claiming him as countryman with great ploasurc. He spoke of his versatility, and of tho fact that ho had appoarod in "talkies" as well as on the concert stage. Mr. Itislop had travelled widely and had carried success with him everywhere, and iv Sweden aiid Denmark

(two eminently musical nations) had been accorded the honour of-Knight-hood. '

Tho Mayor, who arrived with Mrs. Troup lifter the ceremony nt tho campanile, added v warm welcome from the city, and said that ho and Mr. Hislop were not,'only fellow-country-men, but had been born in the same city, Edinburgh., lie spoke of. the versatility of Mi?. Hislop, who had gone 'a long way iu ; liis studies as a painter before he took up music, making a great: success of both. Mr. Troup also extended a welcome to . Mr. ■ Goodman.

Mr. Hislop, rin his, brief reply,: spoxo •of the friendliness:of Now Zealandors, and of their- achievements in many directions, notably in tho fields of sport.: They evidently had the quality of application where' they were interested, and could do well, whether: in art or musip. He urged "sympathetic listening-in;" to music wherever they might hear1 it, and that they should try to encourage tho beautiful art as far as they , possibly could in .all parts of their country. ••■."■

. Aftyupon- tea wasl served, and many, :had an opportunity of meeting ■ Mr. Hislop and Mr. Goodman very pleasantly. Among those present were Mrs. Harison. Cook, Mr., and ■ Mrs. Douglas Tayler,.. Mr.' and./Mrsi Temple White;, Sign'or': Cesaroni; Mr./J.' Bishop, Mr. /and. Mrs; H.hß. Fisher,-. Mr. ; and Mrs/ J. Farrel, Mr; and ;Mrs. 8. :Eirk-: caldio,- Mrs. Coleridge, Mr. W. H. P. Barber, Mr. Nimmo (senior), Mr. and Mrs;' Gordon Short, Mrs.'Pigeon, Mrs. Cachomaille, Mr. and Mrs. ; II.! H. Vfood^Mri Ellwood, Mr. A. Gray and Miss Gray, Mrs. Pow, M. and' Madamede Mauny, Miss Bal!inger, Miss Moore, Miss A. Kane, Mr. and Mrs. Cowles, Miss Cowles, Miss B. Shandj Miss' Hiseocks. Misses Putnam, Mr. Eric Meier, Mr. E. S. Noilly Miss-Neylon, Miss L. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Anderson, Sir John and Lady Luke, Mrs. L. Watkinsj-'Mrs. Vickery, Mr. Izett,' Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright, Misses Tewsley, Kennedy, Earle, .Compton, and Mr. Maunder.' '" ' ;