ALEXANDER WATSON

Evening Star, Issue 17764, 12 September 1921, Page 4

ALEXANDER WATSON

TWO MORE RECITALS. It will be welcome nows to the public that Mr Alexander Watson, whose -arrangej menls provided for_ an entertainment at ' Oaraaru to-night, will return to Dunedin , to give two final, recitals on Wednesday , and Thursday evenings. Details of these ! programme are advertised. 1 The justification for this return is the i enormous business done by the famous entertainer. On Saturday night thb Burns Hall was-filled to the doors, and Mr Watson’s kindness in the way of encore items set him a heavy, task. One of his chief i selections was excerpts from ‘ Nicholas I Niekleby,’ portraying the first meeting of ' Nicholas with Squeers, and the .affairs of the wretched Smite. Mr Watson was ; wonderfully successful in a reading that involved several highly differentiated impersonations. Ho was equally good in a ■ scene from ‘ The Tempest ’ —that fn which Caliban, Stephano, and Trincnlo meet on the enchanted isle. Mr Watson announced, amidst applause, that on one of the. two regaining evenings he would give the Fanny Bqueors tea parly episode from ‘ Nicholas Niekleby.’ The feature of next Wednesday’s recital i adll fee, a second Kipling budget*