ELOCUTIONARY RECITAL

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1924, Page 3

ELOCUTIONARY RECITAL

BY MR. J. C. NEWLANDS.

with TT ? ftpn been stated > «nd with a good deal of truth, that when a newcomer visit. Wellington and proposes to amuse and entertain, Wellington contents itself very largely in biding a we" m waiting for an expression o/opinfon from others, and, hearing good reports of the opening night of the season, fills ' the hall or theatre on the second/ If that be true there can be no vacant accommodation m the Concert Chamber Town Hall, for Mr. J. C. Newlands's se£ ond elocutionary and dramatic recital this evening. Last night saw the Chamber filled, and each report must tend to a thoroughly successful season. His was a capital entertainment, an education, "I°re£Y e, r' t0 those interested in his art. The Dickens sketches "Marley's Ghost,'' from "A Christmas Carol," and "Mr Bumble and Mrs. Camley," from "OK." ver Twist " were happy indeed, quietly placed before the audience, but most ef!f™ lVd2 P°rtrayed- His recitations of The Bells" and "The Eaven" (Poe) gave to his audience a new and finer condition of tnese two magnificent poems, yet though the full drama was presented to the audience Mr. Newlands's renderings were in admirable restraint, the modulation of the voice, the gesture, the inflection carried with them fun effect. "The Pied Piper of Hamehn was a true delight, a picture in colours, clear and bright. So again in Alfred Noyes's "Forty Singing Seamen," a tale of a strange night in London town," bright , humour cleverly and vigorously interpreted. Kipling's "Ballad of the Camperdown" speeded up the heart beat, and excellent again was his rendering of the duel scene, the death of Mercutio and Tybalt, from "Romeo and Juliet. Mr.: Newlands is a Scotchman', and .to those who know the tartan, and to those who know it not so -well- Robj crt Ford's "The Depootation" "and tha old Border ballad, "Wha Daur Meddle wi* me?" were charming numbers indeed. This evening Mr. Newlands will give a night with Barrie, and on Friday evening will give a special talk on "First Principles of Public speaking,"