LARGE AUDIENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 96, 23 April 1940, Page 14

LARGE AUDIENCE

BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY

CONCERT

A large audience attended the second concert of the season of the ; Wellington branch of the British Music Society, which .was held last night in James Smith's tearooms.

The handsome room was arranged as a salon for the occasion, standard lamps with coloured shades, large jars of hydrangeas, and bowls of cotoneaster, viburnum, and euonymous berries were arranged with artistic effect against the oyster white of the walls and pillars of the room. At the conclusion of the musical programme supper was served at small tables where members and their friends forgathered in sociable groups to discuss the music.

Miss Valeric Corliss, honorary organiser, who had arranged the programme, wore a gold coin-spotted champagne net frock and coatee of golden brown velvet. At the commencement of the programme she gave a brief address on the British Music Society and also commented on the excellent progress of the society in Wellington, where there is a steady increase in membership.

Among the audience were Mrs. Corliss, Miss Nelle Scanlan. Miss Ruth Putnam, Mr. A. Pope, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Mulgan, Miss Eleanor Pharazyn, Mrs. D. M. Findlay, Mrs. W. Young, Mrs. Nicholls, Mr. Keith Picton, Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Harris, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Tombs, Miss Beryl Masters (Stratford), Mrs. Schramm, Mrs. David Fergusson, Mr. John Money, Mrs. Gibson, Mr. K. Gibson, Mrs. F. L. W. Wood, Miss M. Forde, Mr. Purser, Mrs. Longimore, Mrs* J. Bennie, Mrs. H. Kirkcaldie, Mrs. R. Bagnall, Miss Helen Crighton (England), Miss B. Masters, Miss Lorimer, Mr. and Mrs. A. Ironsides, Miss Nancy Whittaker, Mr. Kenneth Farmer, Miss Hazelton. Miss Jordan, Mr. Kerr, Miss Gertrude Johnstone, Miss Shakes, Mr. Burrell, Mrs. Salter, Miss Dorothy Salter, Mr. T. J. Young, Mrs. F. A. Comes, Mr. J. Hemmingway, Mr. J. Porter. Miss Anyon, Mr. and Mrs. Ransom Myers, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Cottrell, Mr. J. W. Young, Mrs. Downing, Miss Dorothy Downing, Mrs. Clarke, Miss Joyce Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Harding, Miss Elsie Russell, Mrs. Fenwick (Auckland), Mr. Richard King, Miss Smith, Mrs. Temple White, Mr. Shaw, Miss Andri Bevan, Mrs. Thompson, Mr. Gasser, Mrs. J. Lewis, and also twelve students from the Wellington Teachers' Training Col- J lege.