ENTERTAINMENTS.

Evening Star, Issue 10399, 21 August 1897, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

Views of Edinburgh (the modern Athens) Willis shown at Mr John Fuller’s myrioramio concert to-night. A programme of Scotch music will be rendered, and Highland dances will be given by Miss Hettie Warden and Master Robert M'Kechnie. The popular tenor will sing ‘ The banks of Allan water ’ and take part in the humorous trio * Willie brewed a peck o’ raaut.’ The Albert Lucas company will to-night present their third change of programme, when the sensational melodrama ‘ Queen’s Evidence ’ will be produced. The piece has received adequate rehearsal and should go with a swing. City Hall patrons have always shown a partiality for this class of entertainment, and the management have displayed good judgment in catering for the taste of their patrons. As an additional attraction MrLuoas has been requested and has consented to reoito ‘ Sharaus O’Brien ’ as a curtain raiser. In the piece de resistance the entire company will appear. A full house is anticipated. The Dunedin branch of the Otago Educational Institute held their social in the Choral Hall last evening.’ Though the weather could not have been worse, the entertainment was of the most enjoyable nature. The first part consisted of concert items, together with a pianoforte solo by Miss 0. Little, quite a young player, and a recitation, the * Golden legend,’ by Miss Alexander in excellent style. ■ The following ladies also saug very nicely, eliciting welldeserved applause Misses J, Cairns, V. Campbell, and Treseder, the last-mentioned lady accompanying the various singers during the evening. The sterner sex were represented by Messrs Carter, Lager, Hopcraft, Armstrong, Thompson, Ross, Ibbotaon, and Strong, who contributed a brace of double quartets; while Mr S. Maxwell acquitted himself very nicely in rendering the song 1 Only once more.’ Mr Strong was also heard to advantage in his number, ‘ The miser.’ At the close of the first part Mr Hodge, president of the branch, called upon Sir Robert Stout, as one of the oldest teachers in the room, ■to move a vote of thanks to the performers. In the course of a humorous speech, Sir Robert referred to the great pleasure he had in being present. In looking round the room, he recognised in Mr A. Stewart (Union street) an old fellow-campaigner in the ranks of the first Teachers’ Association established in Dunedin in the early sixties. . He and his • friend had been conning over old reminiscences and locating the whereabouts of the little band whose first meeting, he added amidst laughter, had been held in a public-house in Walker street. In contrasting the humble beginning of the ten members who composed the Institute then with that of the present condition of things he felt gratified. In the old times of which he was speaking, long before the majority of the ladies present were born, the teachers to whom he referred recognised the necessity of banding themselves into a society for their common good, but never dreamt that the Association would have assumed such creditable dimen. sions so soon. Considerable applause followed the close of Sir Robert’s remarks. The remainder of the evening was devoted to dancing to the strains of an excellent band under the direction of Mr Hamaun. The management of the branch deserve every praise for the completeness of their arrangement?. Everything moved along with clock-like precision, reflecting credit on the Committee of ladies and gentlemen who undertook the arduous duties.

The eighteenth annual ball of the New Zealand Clothing Factory ofi at the Agricultural Hall yesterday evening, the gathering proving highly successful—up till 2 a.m. At this hour the electric light suddenly went out, the ball room thus being left in semi-darkness. This was occasioned by the giving out of the large dynamo, but a smaller one being substituted after a brief space the lights were renewed and the dancing recommenced. The large roomy hall afforded every facility for dancing, fully 150 couples taking part ; whilst the gallery was well filled with onlookers. The decorations were on a lavish and artistic scale (this being the work of Mr J. Sutton), and'the upholstery for the stage furnishings was supplied by Messrs A. Lorie and Co. A choice programme of vocal items diversified the proceedings, although this could easily have been dispensed with, judging from the interest taken in the singers by the company. The following contributed items ♦— Mesdamea M‘lndoe and Davis, Misses A. and E. Ivimey, Miss Maofarlane, and Messrs Jago, Blenkinsopp, and Dunne. Mr Birkett delivered a recitation. The M.C.s were Messrs Forrester and M'lndoe, Mr Ivimey was the musical steward, the dance music was supplied by Yates’s string orchestra, and the catering was in the hands of Mr S. Lean.