COLLEGE CONCERT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 6

COLLEGE CONCERT

HUTT VALLEY PUPILS

A successful concert was given by the pupils of the Hutt Valley Memorial College in the Petone Labour Hall last night. There was a large and-ap-preciative audience. Most of the items were given by the pupils, but acrobatics and an exhibition of physical culture were given by the pupils of Mr. Alf Jenkins's studia and a dancing item by two school pupils, trained by Miss Bartosh. So far as the items by the pupils were concerned the training given by the teachers was reflected in the splendid performances. The dresses made by the pupils under the supervision of their teachers were most striking. I The girls' choir opened the Concert with fine items, the soloists being Miss Helen Griffiths and Violet Kerse. Margaret - Wright gave a solo dance, Ailsa Ramsden a musical monologue, R. Blandford and F. Williams a oneact play, and Jessie Pescini a Scottish national dance with G. Pescini as piper. Other items were physical drill by the boys, a display by the boys' life-saving team, a march by the school band, physical drill by the firls, two ballets by gii'ls, trained by udy Lewis, in which the soloists were Judy Lewis and Betty White, drill by the "awkward squad" (boys), cowboy choruses, accompanied , by mouth organs, and a play "Under the Skull and Bones" by the second-year engineerings boys. Owing to the length of the programme, which lasted until after 10.30 p.m., no encores were allowed.

The concert will be repeated this evening.

Out of a list of seventy boys rated ns child prodigies in the musical world during the past quarter-century, only two amounted to anything in adult life —Ychudi lftenuhin aad Jascha HeileU.