CONVENT CONCERT

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 5

CONVENT CONCERT

KILBIRNIE SCHOOL

No more delightful entertainment could be desired than that afforded by the children of the Kilbirnie Convent Schools in their annual concert held last night. The programme was interesting and varied, and the children seemed literally steeped in the parts they were playing, and that engaging seriousness and lack of self-conscious-ness that are the chief charms of children's acting, were conspicuous and refreshing. The hall was packed.

Two songs, "Bless This House" and "The Banks of Loch Lomond" opened the qpneert,' and the younger girls gave a song and dance, "Breezes and Blossoms." The boys' drill was splendidly done and looked attractive, but the most appealing item in the first half of the programme was the "Minuet," in which the costumes and lighting effects combined with the grace of the little dancers to make the number very attractive.

A most talkative and noisy rabbit armed with a dangerous-:looking carrot was the guiding spirit of a short play, "The Old Toys," but all the players were surprisingly good, possessing remarkable "stage-instinct" for their age.

"Pipes of Pan" was sung with simplicity and grace by Dorothy Jones, and this was perhaps the best solo item of the night.

Rhythmic exercises, recitative items, and choruses were followed by a farce "Meddling with Magic," that was enthusiastically received by the audience, showing clearly the disastrous results of meddling with the black arts.

His Grace Archbishop O'Shea congratulated the Sisters and the pupils on their work, and stressed the great educational value of such activities as these they had iust witnessed.