A UNIQUE WEDDING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 8

A UNIQUE WEDDING.

Even the most casual reader of the daily papers cannot help noticing that, whilst concerts nowadays are sparsely attended, boxina tournaments seem to be turning people awav. A large number of people who go regularly to concerts never see a pugilisth contest, whilst a great many boxing fana seldom have an opportunity of hearing good music. So why not mix 'em? Let, say, some choral society try the experiment of staging a contest as a part of its regular performance. The members of the chorus, if only to justify their presence, could sing two or three appropriate numbers during the proceedings, such as "Fight the Good Fight," and, at the moment, "See, the Conquering Hero Comes.'' Such a unique performance should draw a packed house and would serve to celebrate the wedding of music to science. Of course there will be some old-fashioned people who will raise absurd objections to this scheme, saying that the functions of a chorus are not to provide an unobtrusive' background to stunts, but to supply the major portion of the entertainment, and also that the members would not put up with only singing two or three choruses during the evening. The answer o these is the same as the fishmonger pave , | e kind-hearted old lady, who asked him whether skinning eels alive did not hurt them. U lor no bless you, mum," said he, "they gets used to it in time." GENE F. HAXDEL-TUNNEY.