ANNUAL DISPLAY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20731, 16 December 1932, Page 8

ANNUAL DISPLAY.

ST. ANDREW'S COLLEGE

The annual display of St. Andrew's Collogo was held last evening in St. James's Theatre. An extremely large audience of parents and friends attended, and greeted enthusiastically a full programme of musical, elocutionary, and dramatio items. Ab is usual Aith College productions, all-round excellence won shown; but tho outstanding feature of the production was the expedition with which the items were put through, and the high standard of tho stage-managership.

A playlet, "Mrs Larkin's Lodger," given by the Dramatic Club, had tho prominent place on tho programme justified by its ambitious themo, and it was tackled successfully by a cast of all-round ability. This was as follows: —Mrs Larkin, 0. C. Foote (Form VI.); Sally (her maid), A. R. Caverhill (Form IV.A.) ; Brown (a lodger), O. G. R. Edwards (Form V.A.); Turner and Cartliew (medical students), D. L. Cropp (Form VI.) and \V. N. Purchase (Form VI.); Gubbins (friend of Brown), A. J. Henderson (Form V.8.) ; Duwson (plain-clothes constable), C. A. Burmister (Form IV.A.). B. O. H. Clark's (Form Upper V.) recitation of Burns's "A Man's a Man for a' that," and O. G. R. Edwards's (Form IV.A.) rendering of one of Lord Chatham's speeches wore other outstanding items, and a pianoforte solo, Lisit's Sixth Rhapsodic, by P. D. Cooper (Form IV.A.), gained a merited encore. General excellence was shown in tho rest of the programme, which was as follows: "Song of tho Bow" (Florence Aylward), School; elocutionary, "Wolsey's Farewell" (From Henry VIII.), R. F. Worsley (Form IV.A.); singing, (a) "On ths Shoro" (Kjerulf), junior class; (b) "The Lark now Leaves his Wat'ry Nest" (Hatton), intermediate class; (c) "The Patriot's Fatherland" (Reichardt), senior class; elocutionary, "Banncrman of the Dandenong" (Alico Werner), W. G. P. Cuningham (Form II.B.); bagpipe selections, (a) "Portree Bay," (b) "Barren Rocks of Aden," College Pipe Band; (a) Highland Fling, (b) Sword Dance, R. T. H. Cameron (Form 1.A.) : Tha Banjo Song (Sidney Homer), and "The "Whale" (Sea Chsnty), School; physical and gymnastic, (a) physical training, (b) parallel bars, (c) club swinging, (d) vaulting horse, (c) boarders' pyramids, (f) horizontal bnr; "Song of St. Andrew's," School; selections, Old Boys' Orchestra.