THE COMPETITIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 53, 30 August 1940, Page 9

THE COMPETITIONS

NEARING THE END

LAST COMPETITIVE DAY

With only demonstration concerts and the presentation of prizes set down for tomorrow, the Wellington Competitions Society's annual festival will virtually end today, when the last competitive items will be heard.

Already the names of a number of cup winners have been announced. They are as follows:—

W. Maxwell Cup, for boy or girl, to be won outright (aggregate points in popular and vocal impersonation of film star), Earl Andrews, 160 points.

Madame Evelyn de Mauny Memorjal Cup (presented by Wellington Symphony Orchestra) for highest marks in soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto tests. Miss Joan Bovis, 88 points contralto).

Elocution aggregate (Doris Mildenhall Cup), boy or girl, 7 and under 12 years, Lynley Wainscott, 395 points. Anonymous dancing cup, 10-12 years, Lynley Wainscott, 328 points. Anderson Cup for dancing, Leigh Brewer, 293 points.

Selfridges' Silver Cup for toe dancing (highest marks in 9-12, 12-14, or 14-16 toe dancing classes), Lynley Wainscott, Valeric Holder, and Ngaire Bynam tied, each with 84 points.

Ngaire Keys Medal (dancing aggregate for girls under six years), Norma Horsley. 213 points.

Gwen Gibbs Cup for senior dancing, Judy Lewis. 10£ championship points.

• Clog and operatic dancing sections occupied the attention of Miss. B. Edwards, the judge of dancing, in the Town Hall this morning, and this afternoon she had another operatic dance section and one for an eccentric dance. Singing classes were taken in the Concert Chamber in the morning, and girls' elocutionary classes this afternoon. '

A number of competitive classes which have been taken, competitor by competitor, for several nights will be concluded at the variety concert in the Town Hall tonight. In the Concert Chamber there will be some important classes tonight. They are for the Katherine Mansfield recitation, the chief piano solo, the men's operatic solo, the women's negro spiritual, the men's Scottish folk song, and the vocal solo and accompaniment.

[ Dr. J. F. Staton, of London, whose comment on the various classes has been one of the attractions of the Competitions, is to address competitors and others interested tomorrow morning in the Concert Chamber. As people have attended vocal sections for the sole purpose of hearing Dr. Staton's remarks, his audience tomorrow should be a large one.

In the Town Hall tomorrow afternoon the matinee demonstration will be given, all the winners participating in a high-class programme with a strong juvenile flavour. During the final evening demonstration concert tomorrow night her Excellency Lady Galway will present the prizes to the winners.''

Monica Keane, of Newtown, was highly commended by the judge, Miss Edwards, for her performance in the girls' tap dance (6 and under 8 years) in the Town Hall yesterday. Results are as follows:— Operatic Solo, any voice, own selection (16 entries).—Miss Audrey Lawson (87 points), 1; Miss Vesta Emanuel (86 points), 2; Miss Joan Bovis, Shannon, jand Miss Muriel Bridle, Napier (85 'points), 3. j Women's English Folk Song, own 'selection (16 entries).*—Recalls: Miss | Peggy Milne, Lower Hutt; Miss Audrey Lawson, Miss Muriel Bridle, Na- ' pier, and Miss Millicent Penketh, Palmerston North, 3. Boys' or Girls' Sacred Song, under 12 years, own selection (21 entries).— Dawn Sargent (87 points), 1; Beatrice Taylor, Lower Hutt (86 points), 2; Pamela Walker (85 points), 3. Highly commended: Pauline Marshall. Commended: Jewel Maleci'. Operatic Dance, 6 and under 8 years (29 entries).—Betty Carman (82 points), 1; Judith Watt, Petone (80 points), 2; Dorothy Jenness, Lower Hutt (79 points), 3. Very highly commended: Leigh Brewer.

Clog Dance, 12 and under 14 years (8 entries).—Joyce Moody (78 points), 1; Betty Ford, Lower Hutt (76 points)

Boy's or Girl's Action Song. 7 and under 9 years (6 entries) .—June Preston (86 points). 1; Dorothy Jenness Lower, Hutt (84 points), 2; Cynthia Lawson, Petone (82 points), 3. Highly commended: Olive Jones and Donald Sim.

Boy's or Girl's Song in Costume 9 and under 12 years (21 entries) .—Shirley Packer (88 points), l; Pamela Walker (86 points), 2; Valeric Jones (85 Points), 3. Very highly commended: Ngaire Crawford and Dawn Sargent. Highly commended: Beatrice Taylor, Lower Hutt.