SAVAGE CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 806, 2 May 1910, Page 7

SAVAGE CLUB.

The Wellington Savage Club'opened its season on Saturday evening, when the 'initial korero of 1910 was held. Members and visitors more than filled the hall, when, at a few minutes past eight. Chief Savage Colonel R. J. Collins, was, with all due pomp and circumstance. installed into office, beneath the sacred wigwam of . the hapu, the cabalistic signs on whose. smoke-stained folds mean so much—rif .they, could be uiterpretcd. In honour .of. .the occasion the muse had visited Savage "Barney" Wilson, whose clever, verses were declaimed by Savages A. W.,Newton and ml "ilford (the ... retiring Chief). These referred in happy, phrase to Trentham, the visit of Lord Kitchener, the Kolapore Cup, and the AuditorGeneral, and evoked , much laughter. Iho oeromony »was brought to an end by tho Ringing of the. chorus, "Hail to the Chief, n by a l band of. sturdy-voiced warriors: The orchestra,, -under the control uf Mr. D. Kenny,, played the selection, "La Sirene," and a locallywritten chorus sung by a dozen Tollicking Savages helped to a genial Savage E. Parses sang The Curfew" magnificently, and was recalled. Savage J. M. Clark; who long ago qualified in Wellington's good opinion aa an elocutionist of much dramatic force and refinement, recited that passage from Thackeray's "Vanity Fair best described as "Mrs. Rawdon Crawley Found Out," the, highly-dra-matic scene where Rawdon unexpectedly Teleased from the..debtor's prison returns home to find. Becky philandering with Lord Steyne, Mr. Clark has recited tho passage better than he did on Saturday evening, but ho is always acceptable iu whatever he does. As an encore he recited "Just Plain Dog." Mr. Herbert Bloy, a polished violinist, who produces a fine tone, played a couple of solos' attractively. A number that caused groat amusement was the comic duet and dance by "Mudd and Budd." Savago E. J, Hill sang a pretty song, "Moon," with a quartet backing, and with Mr. E. Parkes, sang the duet, "The Moon Hath Raised Her on High," from "The Lily of Killarney. "Harrigan" served to introduce Savage Kenny in humorous vein, ancT lie had to supplement the catcy lilt with. "Pve Struck a. Chorus." Colonel Collins occupied the floor for a few minntcii, during which he thanked tile club for tho honour it had done him in electing hiin Chief Savage, and to tho poets and orators who had so ingeniously emphasised the fact. He hoped that the club would have a successful season, to which end ho .would do his best. Quite a treat was tha instrumental quartet, "The Lark," by Savages C. Hill (flute), L. Cohen (oboe), Wilkinson (clarinet), and , (pi.anb). Savage Gardiner whistled with bird-like facility and freshness to an orchestral accompaniment, and subsequently displayed the full graces of tho art of the sifflenr in a transcription of "The Mocking Bird." The programme was brought to a close by a humorous ditty sung-, by Savago Wilfo'rd, to which Savage Kenny appended an eccentric dance.