MUSIC AND ELOCUTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 4 October 1927, Page 11

MUSIC AND ELOCUTION.

CAMBRIDGE FESTIVAL.

RECORD NUMBER OF ENTRIES. FIRST DAY'S RESULTS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CAMBRIDGE, this day. v With a record number' of entries, 510, over 100 more than the previous record, the fifth annual festival of the Cambridge Competitions Society opened in the Town Hall yesterday. • It "Will be continued all this week.

Last evening the president, of the society, Mr. E. Veale, extended a cordial welcome to the visiting competitors, and introduced the judges, who are:—lnstrumental and vocal music, Mr. Temple White (Wellington) ; elocution, Mrs. Bartley Baxter (Auckland). The results of yesterday's competitions are.—

Recital (girls under 12): Rosalie Daniels (Auckland), 1; Jean Turner (Matamata), Rosemary Richardson (Cambridge), 3. Five competitors. Piano solo (under 14): Lois Hewitt (Auckland), 72, 1; Barry Harbutt (Cambridge), 70, 2; Jean Maberley, 69, 3. Fourteen competitors. Recitation (boys and girls tinder 14) i Joan Hardy (Cambridge), 176, 1; Max Aard (Cambridge), 160, 2; Joan Turner (Matamata), and Gladys Bluck (Cambridge), 154 each, 3. Seventeen entrants. Piano duet (under 12): Joan Maberley and Rita P. Price, 76, 1; Nona Easter and Mavis Boyce, 75, 2. Vocal solo (gentlemen, resticted): W. A. -Mills (Te Awamutu) "The Mighty Deep," 70, 1; A. Watts (Manurewa), 68, 2. Five competitors.

Piano solo (under 21}, "Nocturne in C Minor": Miss Joyce Hewitt (Remuera), 78, 1; Miss Flossie Brook (Thames), 75, 2; Miss Gane Harbutt (Cambridge), 73, 3. Five competitors. Recital (girls under 9), "Sixpence": Joyce Martin and Moya Mahoney, equal, 1; Colin Martyn and Charlie Ferguson, equal, 2. Recital with musical accompaniment, humorous: J. A. Sharp (Auckland), "And Yet I Don't Know," 207, 1: Frank Adeane (Auckland), 200, 2; Miss Edna Langmuir, 3. Eight competitors.

Mezzo-soprano solo,"Down in the Forest": Norah M. Edwards (Te Awamutu), 80, 1; Edna Langmuir (Te Awamutu), 78, 2; Adele Bell, 3. Eleven competitors.

Humorous recital: Norman Langton (Cambridge), 170, 1; Gretchen Holme, 169, 2; Edna Langmuir, 3. Vocal solo, with accompaniment -and obligato. W. Maberley (Cambridge), 1. . Impromptu Speech: E. H. Hillam, 180, 1; Frank Adeane (Auckland), 179, 2.

E. Bass solo, "Harlequin": W. A. Mills (Te Awamutu), 75, 1; A. Watts (Manurewa), 68, 2.