PORT NICHOLSON BAND.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 25 May 1925, Page 10

PORT NICHOLSON BAND.

, T ?J e, io*ufo recital given by the Port Nicholson Srtver Band in the Grand Opera House last evening proved most enjoyable, and encores were insistently. demanded by a very laxge audience. The assisting artists were members of the .New English Musical Comedy Company^ and they presented a programme well m kesping.with the high standard which has always been maintained by the Port Nicholson Band. Mr. Herbert Walton gave two entertaining monologues, "Drought and "A Little Motor-car." Miss Marie La Varre snug "Where Have You Been "Hiding?" and as an encore number "Ann." Mr. Charles Zoli was irt good voice, and his number, "I Married a Widow," waa well received. Miss Marie Burke sang, a Negro spiritual, and with Mr. Noei Allan was heard to advantage in tha duet, "Letter Song" (from "Sybil"). The band numbers were -well chosen and included the hymn, "Glory to God," the overture, "Morning, Nooii, and Night" (Beethoven), "Hallelujah, 1 and tho march, "Twentieth Century, bandsman W. Stevenson, who lias justly Ijcen regarded as one of Ihc (most col". tieulpi.it In iiiu fiHin.||«rii Huiiitsiilieiv, was heard in i'^pidft': aai itßecaufie^