Waipawa School Concert.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5328, 19 September 1888, Page 3

Waipawa School Concert.

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Lant evening the dramatic and musical entertainment in aid the district school was given m the Oddfellows Hail It was ft decided success, in a monetary way, and alto in point of excelleaee, tie programme eubmitted meeting with pronounced marks of approval. After aa overtare from the Orchestral Society, entitled "Little Beauty," the curtain row on the celebrated trial scene from th« « Merchant of Venice." The cast-was as follower-Portia, Miß« J. Shemtt : Nerwsa, Mise T. Johnson ; Shylock, Mr Horusby; Antonio, Mr Bueli; Baswnio. Mr A. W. Gould; Gratiano, Mr A- h. Jull: the Duke, Mr Purchiui: Salanno, Mr W. ri. J Bennett. As the scene is well known, recapitulation of the argument is needless. It was mounted with full and appropriate dreseen. and w«nt very smoothly, bhylock Antonio, Bas.ianio, Grtitiauo, and ft* eW' the honors. The other characters were well sustained, and all deserved -the applause which followed. Calkthenio exercises by some twenty maidens, all drensed out in cream or white •dresses, and fitted with waude painted and gold and blue and uhrer Alternately, took their places on the Htage, .and went through a series of evolutions to the accompaniment of music 11. a really •creditable manner. All did well, and one or two girlß—Seliim Beauebamp and Kate Tueley—made tho exercise enjoyable UooJy as the poetry of motion. A tableau, " Die Threo Graces," the characters sustained by Miaees Gilwour, Britten, and Gibson, concluded this item. The grouping of all the «rrl» was splendid, wliile the ''Graces S«od aud looked right well. Mr G. W. WiUiatneon a/3teJ an <lirw;tor. aJad may %o ooßiplitnented on the wiocessful iunui of liis putieuce atid trouble in tnunmg the srhh The '• Aebault at Anns,' by twelve &terito*B«£woe and tbe public debt was «ho wt item. The boys were inatt-'o-WBr *Mit*, and equipped with ™Uamc«, and went through their «lnll Z ith predion and donpatch. TLe mudic Zbb furnuihed by the orchestra, and tie toys and it were unanimous in point ot time kept; a hi K her eompluaeut I cannot SLk ot. After an exhibition to the martial Si of Maroh aux Flambeaux, a tableau ■w** struck, aud the curtaina at tlw back ef ttewx* parted and disclosed Beik Baker Iβ Britannia, dressed in appropriate dreas, and tbe dttails of her aecoinpauing Indent, thield, &c jEaithfuUy carried out. ihe Lvs and Britannia remained in pom ion Se the orehertra played a verse oi •' Kulo Britannia," and thea. ihe curtain tell on 4he Rein of the entertainment. Mr H. 1 . Bush acted as director, and denervea all tho SoditSat can bo bestowed far the excellent training his battalion of boy* »bowod, and hb care and trouble. Tho second part opened with an ojertui*. hv the society, election « ftrateu of Peii/Lco " and the liftißK of tho curtain was Bennett and Stone Thoujrh the ecea/j is familiar to all, I think Hubert the ffiwed. Pfiuce Artlwr looked in We velvet tunic and wbito ruffle that ihe ™ entuation of hia uUimate *afoty was ioncWe even to une-if nuch there were tTtnThall-iinwra" l of the-«iuel of tlw The curtain fell to the nlamtivt S O f the mt«ic which procedei ita up. S«™ Tho pen of a ready writer wro«uSs to dtpi«t the tableau of pbuxtation life r-LouiSn," which followed. 'itowngH and jubilee hyimw were tendered by tk, Wainawa " blackbird*. in "ie wul fe' s > chorus v..d tableau, ' Steal A^ ay to Jeeus " tableau •' My (iood Lord s Been HeT" tableau; " Good-bye, Brother," and f final tableau. The children dwUujrmrficd thciuwlve.., aud left uothiiig to be desirwl. All the tableaux were lit by colored fues -Mrs Jarley's Waxworks, ' immortalised by Charles Dickens, the e.mnent novelist, concluded the enter!uiniueiit. Mr Beuueit, . ATr« TarU'V described hie show in a A,^,undtheolicotu K «dtobo not to (IJlftV t !lu >» ,1,4M! :,s,sed A I f ? 'Lthpi.n<''-*'s l iiuait was ably assisted by vv Willi*...*.™.. w, «" ,iiled thu ■J£u of i'iuuiet, -th,' viauwt .t« tho H-jciety

being out of t"wn. The management are to be cousrratuht!",! on the first-rate entertaiunieiit worked up. All who took part deserve credit, and the many willing- hands who kindly noted in small capacities have the wannest thanks of the management

Mr J. A. Iviiiins, M.L.S.M. (Dublin), and Registered Ph.innu'-isl. niiiy b<:> iron - suited free daily froiii '■' a.m. i . 9.;»l'i p.m. at Kakins and Co.'s, l'hanuaceuucal, Manufacturing, and Analytical Chemists (contractors lor i'm supply of pure driijrs and chemicals to the Napier Hospital by special appoiutmeut), Emerson-street, N';ipi;T