MR H. NEVILL SMITH'S CONCERT.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17291, 1 November 1921, Page 11

MR H. NEVILL SMITH'S CONCERT.

'At tha concert to-lie given in the Choral. Hall to-morrow ' evening by Mr H. NevillSmith, an excellent array of vocalists will appear.- Among these is Mrs Percy .Rule, who has not sung here since her appearances with the Royal Musical Society and the Male Voice Choir. 1 Since then she has' been adding further laurels iu concerts at Dunedin. The Dunedin "Star" writes:—"Mrs Kulo's voice is fiexiblo and well trailed, her method is cultured, and there is with her,a captivating bltfnd of the abandon of youth and .ballast ol .experience." Mr George .Andrews has iiot sung since his last appearance in the Wellington Town Hall. On that occasion he- received the compliment of a triple encore. Mias Francos Hamerton, the present- holder of the Male Voice Choir scholarship, has been-heard to great advantage at concerts in aiid around Christchurch. Miss Horrell recently gave a successful song recital in Rangiora. Miss Eiby is well known as an • excellent interpreter of song. Mrs Kiver is • making her reappearance on the concert platform, and Miss Atkinson and Miss Hannay have nppeart d at many concerts with marked succesß since Mr Nevill-Smith's last Christchurch ooncert. Among the first appearances in Christchurch are Mrs Aubrey Houston, Miss Miss. Salter, Miss Longton, Messrs T. White and R. Shepherd. In additiou to the-above vocali&ts there is Mr Alan Shrimpton, who has just concluded a four months' tour leading baritone,with the "Odi and Ends" Druma.tie Cafnpany under the direction of Messrs J. and N. Tait. The accompanimerts will be played by that excellent pianist?, Wr9 Vere Livingstone.

Brillat-Savarin, the celebrated French, gourmet, author of the famous compendium on the art of dining "The Physio-, logy, of Taste" ("La Pnysiologie du Gout"), is to have a statue erected in his honour at Beliey, in the Ain department, where he was corn in* Hie ceremony {s to be made the occasion for a BriUat-Savarin week at Beliey, where the most famous French chefs will serve throughout the celebrations only dishes especially praised by the 'toaster." 'Among the dying industries is that of the blacksmith <says a London paper). Owing to the rapid expansion of motor transport, there are fewer horses to. shoe, and what business is left remains in the old-world Tillages. ."The spreading chestnut tree" may still stand, but the village smith of the poem now owns a garage and instead* of shoeing and sharpening ploughshares he is busy supply petrol and repairing tyres. The blacksmith is slowly but surely going the wav of the old coachman and the hansomrc.ib driver. Trade is bn/1 with the country smiths, and only the . old men are keeping to the old job.