SOLDIERS ON STAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 4

SOLDIERS ON STAGE

TRENTHAM CONCERT PARTY

COMPOSER DISTRIBUTES SONG

. Some of tlje audience took their turn on the stage of the V.M.C.A. theatre on Wednesday night when the Official Camp Entertainers arranged for Miss Eileen Dennehy to present a concert at Trentham. The programme opened with a piano duet by Privates Parneil and Dawe and other items by soldiers included the "Yeoman's Wedding Song," by Signaller C. Dowling (tenor), a piano accordion quartet by Corporals Prescott and Heginbotham and Privates S- Symons and G. W. Lewis, tenor solos by Corporal L. Andrews (who also sang a duet with Miss Campbell), tap dancing by Private T. Martin, and a violin solo by Private M. Roland.

Ballets were featured on the programme, which also included song solos by Miss Campbell. The final number, sung by Corporal Andrews, was the song "Lads of New Zealand," composed

by Miss Dennehy, who played all the accompaniments during the concert. Later she presented copies of her song to the boys. Those who danced in the ballets were Misses Vedras Cathcart, Ruby Ferguson, Olive Chalmers, Elsie McLennan, Margaret Reilley, Beryl and Betty. Donoghue, Jean Ferguson, Avis and Sheila Greer, and Joan Ellis.

Major Mitchell thanked Miss Dennehy and her party, and the men who had entertained, and the visitors were the guests of the officers of No. 1 Training Unit for supper. The executive committee thanks the Automobile Association, Miss T. Meadows, and Messrs. T. R. Smith and Gunnion for arranging for cars.