DANCING.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 16 December 1929, Page 21

DANCING.

RECITAL AT RADIANT HALL. At the Radiant Hall on Saturday night a recital was given by the pupils of Miss Bessie Macdonald in aid of the Burns Memorial Hall. The programme comprised 44 different scenes, and as each scene was different, it can only be said that the organising ability of Miss Macdonald, and her collaborators, must be of a very high order. Prominent among the latter was Mrs W. O. S. Adam, the musical director and accompanist, whose orchestra contributed largely to the success of the evening. It would be impossible to mention every deserving item, but prominent among many embryo Pavlovas was little Mickey Perrin, whose Dance Comique was exceptionally good. Again, a contortionist act, by Pat Gregory and Charles Birchfield, was worthy of a larser audience than even the Radiant Hall could hold. And lastly, the babies, or junior students, as the programme austeraly called them, were as delightful as could be desired. Following was the programme: — Part I.—Overture, orchestra; song. "Good Little Bad Little You,". David McGill and ballet; ballet, operatic (soloist, Pat Gregory), senior students; dance, operatic, Valda May; speciality duo, Enid Lawson and Bob McCaughren: ballet carnival (soloist, Edna Berg), junior students: dance, pas seul, Frances Clark: dance comedy, six high steppers; the babies' party (vocalist, Joan Thompson, assisted by ballet and the babies) ; a contortionist act, Pat Gregory, assisted by Charles Birchfield; ballet, operatic (soloist, Betty Freeman), junior students: Russian dance, Kay Jury (a student from the Sumner School for the Deaf) : dance, operatic. Gladys Rose; ballet, classical versus jazz (vocalists, \lice Chapman and David McGill), senior students; dance. "The Fairies' Waltz." Fave McCanehren. Betty Hawker, Rons Fletcher; dance. "V3lse Brilliant." Merrill Jones: comedy duo. Gwen Anson and Charles Birchfield, ballet, black and white (soloists, Delia Prisk and Sheelah Chapman), senior students; 'a Dutch trio. Edna Berg, Elsie Brand, Betty Freeman; dance, operatic, Jocelyn Sheppard: dance duo. furioso. Winnie Hawker. Winders McMullan; a Spanish scene: (a) Castanet dance, four seniors; (b) shawl dance, eight senoritas: (c) a tambourine dance, eight gipsy girls; (d) a tambourine dance, four gipsy girls; (e) a gipsy dance, the babies. Part 11-—Entr'acte, orchestra: staircase dance (soloists), Mickey Perrin and Faye MeCaughreu), baby students; staircase dance (solo dancers, Bessis Macdonald ana Emily Turner), senior students; dance, charrnente. Delia Prist; ballet, operatic (soloist, Doris Todd), senior students; baby dances "A' Vieht With the Fairies." baby students Vvatalie Benson, Peggy Hart, Brenda Marshall Peggv Elder, Kola Thomas, Pat Jones, Edna Graham: song. "You Were Meant for j£e " Bob McCanghren and ballet; baby ver-

sion. Faye McCaughren; dance comique. Mickey Perrin; dance duo, "Two Little Rosebuds." Merrill Jones, Jocelyn Sheppard; ballet, operatic (soloist, Iris Hawker), senior students; dance duo, Rae Chamberlain. Pat Foster: dance duo, operatic, Frances Clark, Olwin Jones; dance, comedy, Winnie Hawker; dance, operatic, Joyce Tooley; stunt ballet, senior Btudents and the babies: dance, fantastique, Joan Thompson; a trio, "A Midsummer Story," Iris Hawker. Ngaire Pounsford, Joyce Tooley; ballet (solo dancers, Pat Gregory, Mickey Perrin), eight tiny tots: song, "Garden of My Dreams," Alice Chapman and ballet; dance, Arabesque, Winders McMullan; patter dance, Gwen Anson, Rae Chamberlain. Charles Birchfield, Pat Foster; dance, eccentric, Sheelah Chapman: ballet. "The Birds and the Scarecrow": Sparrows, baby students; blackbirds, senior students; the scarecrow, Elsie Brand; grand finale, "Lilac Time." entire company. Vocalist, Alice Chapman. Solo dancers, Bessie Alacdonald, Emily Turner. Another recital will be given this evening.