COMPETITIONS FESTIVAL

Evening Star, Issue 21811, 29 August 1934, Page 6

COMPETITIONS FESTIVAL

THIS MORNING'S AWARDS There were straight-out awards in four sections at this morning’s sessions of the Competitions festival. Results: —■ NATIONAL SCOTCH OR IRISH SONG, Gentlemen, own selection. Mr F. .G. Taplin, 94 points 1 Mr Leslie Dunbar, 87 points 2 Messrs S. I. Bickcrstaff and R. Dunbar, 8G points (equal) 3 Also competed: Messrs Kenneth Murray, Jack Stevens, J. W. Rodger, Edwin Sheat (Shag Point), R. E. Duncan, John Erskine, Sector Brosnan. VOCAL SOLO, for ladies who have never won a prize in vocal sections at any festival prior to this, own selection. Misses Maud Giles and Gwendolen Smith, 87 points (equal) 1 Misses Margaret Mitchell and Margaret Beattie, of Patearoa, 86 points (equal) 3 Also competed: Misses Norma Brown, Mavis Baird, Angola Hendry, U. Fosbender (Invercargill), Edith Clare, Ethel Hadfiekl, Ngata Buswell, Annabell Murray, Lexie Mathieson, Peggy Ramsay, Grace Clark, L. McDonald, V. M. Brunton, Isabel Barron, Mrs M. Fletcher (Christchurch). CHARACTER RECITAL, 12 and under 16, own selection, in costume. Joy Knowles, 103 points 1 J. L. Keown, 101 points 2 Christine Wallace and Alice Clarke, 97 points (equal) 3 Highly commended: Deslys M'Kenzie, M. Middleditch (Balclutha), Lydia Henderson, June Lawrence (Christchurch). Also competed: F. M. Anthony, Joyce Ridley, Gwyuneth Watson, Evelyn King, Ida Macdonald (Grcymouth), Beatrice Jury, John Murie (Christchurch), Edna Brown, Annie Jenkinson (Invercargill). RECITATION, Girls 10 and under, 1 Shadows in Fairy Town ’ (Burford). —Third Section, — Noelino Bean, 84 points 1 Edith Wallace, 83 points 2 Marjorie Jones, 81 points 3 Very highly commended: Kathleen Nevin. . Highly commended: Ngaire Doull, Joyce Cameron, Yvonne Finncrty, Mario Lenihau. ■ Also competed: Alice Parker, Maria Heads. Estelle Gibson, Elizabeth Hanley, Margaret Hitchcock, Nancy Nevin, Alma Keenan (Port Chalmers), Bona White, Pauline Howell. TO-NIGHT’S PROGRAMME. To-night’s programme should prove most interesting. It commences with the choir contest between the St. Clair Presbyterian Church Choir and the United Congregational Church Choir, and in this section alone patrons should hear some excellent singing. This will be followed by the half-hour entertainments (dramatic section) by the W.E.A. arts class in ‘ Allison Lad,’ the W.E.A. drama class in ‘ The Man Who Would Not Go to Heaven,’ and the Good Companions in ‘ The Man in the Bowler Hat.’ There will also be the vocal solo for ladies (operatic air and ballad).. . By special request Mr J. W. Bailey, the elocution judge, will give impersonations of ‘ People I Have Met,’ and this should prove a most delightful innovation.

To-morrow morning the recitation for boys (10 and under) will be taken in His Majesty’s Theatre and in the afternoon a special children’s matinee will be held. , ,