ST. KILDA PATRIOTIC CONGERT

Evening Star, Issue 16231, 28 September 1916, Page 2

ST. KILDA PATRIOTIC CONGER T

■» ■ ■ » i Residents of St. Kilda and the neigh- i boring district attended in largo numbers I at the Coronation Hall last night, the at- ! traction being a concert bv the Overseas • Club Juvenile Pierrots in aid of the fur.de j for supplying the soldiers with Christmas ! gifts. Over £2O was taken at the door, and to this'sum Las to be added the. return from the sale of tickets and a contribution of pennies in the hall as the result - • ?> of ' Only a Penny' by Jittls Kay Mantell, her appeal being answered by a shower of coppers. Miss IST Osborn's reciting of 'The Absent-minded Beggar' was also the means of stirring the syir- : patliiee of tho - audience. The St. Klkl-i j Band played iu front of the hall before ' : •fee concert, and the Musselburgh School ! Band gave selections in tho interval. Tb« ! , ' programme submitted by tho Pierrots I brought to the front, in addition to the two children above : mentioned, May As ton" Betty Dallas, Lilian Swann, Doris Zaffe;-' Lily Stevens, H. Aston, Mvrtlo Astou' Douglas Swift, Jack Osborne, "Tom Dallas' Noel Dallas, \V. Robinson, F. H Swift, J. Reddell, L. Stevens, and D. Gillies. These children had been well •." trained.by Mi- Macfie, Mrs Dallas, and " . Mrs Osboxn. Mrs T. Dallas played the accompaniments.