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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 229, 28 September 1938, Page 13

RECITAL.

ELOCUTIONARY AND VOCAL.

In the Lewis Eady Hall last evening aa elocutionary and vocal recital was given, u 06 ® taking part being students from the the studios of Madame Aileen and Mr. Dennis Johns.

The vocal items were as follow:—"The Market" (Carew) and "The Lass With the Delicate Air," Jacqueline Page; "I Did Not Know" (Trotere), Allen Hill; "I Love the Moon" (Rubens), Stella Shute; duets, "Still a* the Night" (Bohm) and "Silent Night" (arr. Briscoe), Ann Martin and Hildred Stevens; "The Cuckoo" (Lehmann) and "She Shall Have Music" (Murray), Elizabeth Smart; "My Lips Shall Speak Thy Praise" (arr. Roper) and "One Fine Day" (Puccini), Phyllis Lindridffe; part songs, "Drink to Me Only" (arr. Dunhill) and "To Music" (Schubert), Mildred Noble, Jean Ovenden, Con. stance Johnson, Dorothy Evans; "The Almond Tree" (Schubert), Molly Holding; duet, "Thank God for a Garden" (del Riego), !Molly Holding end Jacqueline a ? e irr the Forest" (Tsebaikowskv) and Ties Deux Couronnes" (Rae), Norah Clarke; I Attempt From Love's Sicks. ( Pnrcell ) «nd "Bhould He Upbraid" ( Esme Leach; "O Mistress Mine" (Quilter) and "Take a Pair of SparklirEyes (Sullivan), Frank Robinson: "O Love, from Thy Power" (Saint-Saens) ar I Iraum Durch die Dammerung" (Straus* 1 Constance Johnson; "Zueignunc" (Strauss) and "A Summer Night" (Thomas), Doris Foote; "The Swar" (Gneg), and "A Vain Suit" (Brahms., Girleen Clarke.

The elocutionary item* -were: "The China Tragedy," Shirley Stevens; "Placing By The Stream," Patricia Davidson; The Song of the Market Place," Beatrice Martin; "The Potion Scene" ("Borneo and Juliet"), and "My Financial Career," Valerie Blackmore; "Nini, lunette, Ninon" and "The Knight and the Ladv." Doris Foote: "Man Proposes," Valerie Black more. Patricia Davidcon, Beatrice Martin; "The Victor of Marengo." Jacqueline Page; "Queen Margaret's Mockery" (Henry VLI, Patricia Davidson: play, "The Lost Opportunity," Beth Dornan, Jacquelin Eobertsop and Gloria Grmttan; "River of Stars." Edna Lewis. One of the outstanding feature# of performances, vocal and elocutionary, was the clarity of the enunciation, winch was most commendable. Lois Shortlana . the accompaniments with •7 ln P? understanding and a plea«ra£ j A presentation was wade t°. their Mr. Dennis John, in the interval by their students.