DAINTY ENTERTAINMENT

Evening Star, Issue 18628, 8 May 1924, Page 5

DAINTY ENTERTAINMENT

PORT CHALMERS JUVENILES. A dainty entertainment by fifty juveniles filled the Town Hall, Port Chalmers, last night. It was staged as a ‘ Lilliputian Extravaganza,’ and it was delightful. There was plenty of color and movement, also juvenile precocity neatly trained in natural expressiveness. The opening ensemble by the full company showed that Nellie Jamieson, as “the lady,” was equalled only by “ Dicky ” Dougherty’s capable impersonation of “the geeitloman.”

The whole programme was a credit to Mr J. E. A. Thompson, who had trained the children, and under whose personal supervision they presented it so pleasingly. Favorite items included the Apache dance, in which Sybil and Elliott Thompson excelled ; Texas Way gave Rita her choice to score an encore; in ‘ They’re After Me ’ George Smillie showed that a schoolboy has a sense of humor and can express it; Ivy Asher (somewhere iu Naples), Flora Campbell (Loveland), and the Parker children (Walt de Resistance) were very good, as wore also the Brown boys, Phyllis Honeybone, Marjory Carrington, Mary Geddcs, Eileen Howley, Jean Donaldson, the Marion Morgan dancers, and the chorus girls. The twenty minutes of classic dancing by thirty-one girls and boys was nicely done, and little Edna Harrhy did the unpopular “ sneak ” part, really well, Mavis Brown and Lili O’Brien also scoring a success.