SOCIETY FOR IMPERIAL CULTURE.
A meeting of the Society for Imperial Culture was held on Saturday • evening, at the Canterbury Women's Club, Mr W. M. Hamilton presiding. The programme consisted of a lecture on "Drama: Its Origin and Early History in Great Britain," by Professor Shelley, with dramatic recitatives from Purcell's "Dido and tineas," and Elgar's "Dream of Gerontius," by Mr Sydney Butler, L.K.A.M., with, for -finale, a violin "Serenade" (Drigo), and "Hungarian Dance" (Brahms), by Miss Louise Croucher, accompanied by Mr Ernest Empson, L.R.A.M. f Mrs Brittomarte James, a Melbourne visitor, moved the vote of thanks to the lecturer and musicians, and said that nowhere in Australia and New Zealand, except in Christchureh had she found a society embodying the whole of the arts. The beauty of New Zealand was beginning to produce its effect on the minds of the people.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17750, 30 April 1923, Page 7
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