SCHOOL CONCERTS

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 73, 19 December 1907, Page 9

SCHOOL CONCERTS

•.;;:' : ..':;:..:.;;., .-terrace, -.'■■ . ■ ■■■•> ' ■■■■ Tlii) annual'" brpaklrig-up" -concert by the; ;';. pupils of' tho' Torrace•■District High fcchool ; ■ waa held' in'-' Sf. : 3oh'n-'e"Schoolroom on Tuesday :";' aftorhoon.~ : 'Th6ro ; .was''aTai t go attendance of ' .': parents and"fi'ioiids; "arid a-very good programme of 'no. less thjin-:twoiity items'was ' •' presented, Tho infant drill display was ■ I'goqd.Y There wore quifo "a mimlier of ■"dance '/ ,: : • itoms, :: lncluding ballot, 'Military (by "Sllsef •'■f' ;lipdre's'p'iipirs), , '-c!og,;''tambonrini-VWolsli I '-and'-f •'•'■ <"- slavey/Vdances. •■Thero was; also an"in- >'■• iterostiiig'display,- "Tho Old WohianVShbej' , ■ iin \vliibhra'. mimbof s ;of the junior-pupils''took V" parti^'^'he^qijtcrtaiiiraeriP.rfas;* 1 great sue- ? ■ ooss/'; : -':'/->' ;, ' j - ■; "■'.""- : '^'^/-^v:":"';;!';;. ,: .;."" ." l.^':''"':'-^: ;V;;-vV '',-1 MiTOHB^LTOWJ?^"':,"'.. '~'. at>tho Jlitclielltowri School^:;■'•; ')jM A.i'.croHlckii ■!■ 'Dn':'.:ii;Tiicsday :,." night;?--;-.' j'whenr.-s.nn:! .chtortaimnent ■•-in.-C'aid-'ryof -.r: ;tlio -piano - f .wasi ' given.."-by .the . /pupils.-,; Tlio.i.iiark:singiiig '.by: tho'.'/sfiiiioir. ..A. was A.speoiallv.arrangodf: ■ ■■: musical oomedyr ''The--Household oh the -Vi.. (Juoeu of. Jlitohelltown,". in 'which -the hbus&>< - ' maids, pages, cooks; and-,other members of :; an orthodox royal• suitb woro-represonte.d by •■■ •'• L the pupils, , wasvoi-y sucoesshil:- Other items ?•'•.'■ irioludod a fan song by thb-girlsj action songs;: ." .by; tho infants, riflo exercises, and volley ..firing by tho cadets, soiics' and recitations, and club and dumbbell ■drill. Tbe coucert will bo repeated this ovoning. ': ;■;'■•'■, NQtIMAL 'SCHOOL J".;,'' :\ '-.}";'■. Tho ■ annual: noncort by the pupils attend- : ,'ing,,the Normal- School, Thorndon, ■' was held- ■-■■'■ !jii tho Sydney Street Seliooliviom'last oven- '; ing. .■■ Tii.e ontertainmont, which was well iittoiidc.dj _to/)k tho form of a. school operetta,'"' I "Show-whito' and the Seven Dwarfs," and . . was an oxcocdingly .creditablo -performance;' Roryl Jacobs', as tho Princess Snow-whito; Iris Hutcbings, as the Queen; Frank Aickjti, as the Princo; and lfrauk Picot, as Carl tho Huntsman, ■ entered thoroughly into tho spirit of thoir parts, and wnro ably supported by a well-trained chorus. The Seven Dwarfs wore represented by Claude Perry, Claude' Tomperton, James Leys, Wilfrid I Grubby"Barry D.-iyies, James AValtobam, and Richard' Tuclswclll'... Mr.' J. K. Kdio. who trailed tho ' juvenile performers',; .;..-; tho musical portions of llio.oporetta, wliibh ' contained somo very tnnoful. oli6rus.es, and,, ' .Btiss", C T.'""Strack,.pfciidqd' at tho piano,'- ■"-.- Thi pprformanco. will .bßfepeatodthis oven-. " ing-.. . . '..' , '':,. •"' T ~-': " ■' ■ .";. ! .;,V