CAPPING CONCERT

Evening Star, Issue 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 18

CAPPING CONCERT

This year the Capping concert give* every promise of maintaining the high, standard set in former years, and the students have'been busy for weeks paslj making all preparations to present one 6f the best of their brilliant and scin« tillatingly witty shows. The concert for 1935 ipcludes two farces, some seven interludes, and the ' sextette. The first farce, ‘ Kink, the Konked,’ ia a. treatise on Douglas Social Credit. It also sheds some new light on the recent mayoral elections. Among the interludes, which are all of k, high standard, is a well-trained ballet, ‘ The Rushia Ballet’ (according to the pro- • gamme). The dancers perform #ell in a burlesque number. An'old enemy of the~ University is pilloried in-another sketch. . - ‘ Two of the Twelve,’ or ‘ Mark and John,’ is a musical farce dealing with the struggle of two members of the lat® City Council for presidential supremacy in a rather obscure body of Communistic origin. It involves a complicated amatory entanglement, and include* \■' some good staging of torture scenes. The lyrics, set to popular and tuneful melodies, are presented by a larg* chorus of “ Friends of the ‘Soviet Union.” This year the sextette ha* the best individual-voices it has eve* had in its long careeV.