FRENCH CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 121, 24 May 1932, Page 11

FRENCH CLUB.

The Auckland French Club held the first meeting of the season in the League of Pemvonien's rooms last evening, when an enjoyable musical programme was arranged by Mrs. J. .T. Sullivan and a French play and reading arranged by Mr. P. S. Ardern. Tlic guests were welcomed by the president, M. Edoua.rd Joubert, Consul for France in Auckland, and Mrs. J. J. Sullivan, the latter wearing a black satin gown relieved with shell pink ninon. During the evening the consul made feeling reference to the death of the President of the French Republic, M. Paul Dotimer, and later in the evening presented to Miss Elsie Jennings, the treasurer, and Mr. G. S. Coldham, a vice-president, the Palmes Academiques, a much-valued decoration accorded by the French Ministry of Public Instruction, in recognition of distinguished service in the cause of the propagation of the French language, and of a better understanding of French views and ideals. The programme consisted of artistically played violin solos by Mr. John Hulme; songs by Mrs. Sullivan, Miss Kennedy and Mr. Wilbraham; dance duo, Misses Claire Seale and Joyce Wright; piano solos, Miss O'Leary; French recitation, Miss Mavis Houghton. The second half of the programme included a reading, "Un Jour de Noces," by Miss Mary Pilkington, and concluded with a tabloid tragedy, arranged by Mr. P. S. Ardern, in five acts and five minutes, in which the roles were ably sustained by Mis« Phyllis Tait, Messrs. Robertson and Aldo Harte.