THE COMPETITIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 5

THE COMPETITIONS

Entries for all classes in the Wellington Competitions Society's festival in August and September will close on Friday, June 28. The society anticipates that this year's entries will exceed the record of 3661 established in 1933 ' ' : ' Mr. Harrison Allen, the elocutionary adjudicator for this year's competitions, has been a leading teacher of voice and speech training m Sydney for the last twenty years. Apart from an extensive private practice, he has held the position of lecturer to many theological, training, and leading private colleges for many years. He also holds the position of examiner in the art of speech and phonetics for the Australian Music Examinations Board, which is under the control of the State Universities of Australia, and which in Sydney is controlled by the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music. Mr. Allen has had an extensive experience as an adjudicator at competitions in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland, including South St Ballarat Grand National Eisteddfod of Australasia. He has also acted in that capacity at Dunedin, and as an adjudicator at the Wellington Competitions in 1923. He is well known in Sydney as a character actor and a versatile reciter, specialising in the portrayal of Dickens characters.