REEFTON NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1925, Page 7

REEFTON NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent).

REEFTON, November 30. A splendid attendance greeted the pupils of the local Convent of Mercy when the curtain swung up for their annual concert on Saturday night. The Princess Theatre was well filled, in fact standing room only was the order of the night some considerable time before the perforance started. The audience proved to be appreciative, all the numbers being received with applause. All the young performers acquitted themselves well. The work in the concerted items was particularly fine, the voices blending well. This, combined with a tastefully decorated stage, good dressing and last but not least, splendid lighting effects, presented to the Reefton public quite as fine an evening’s entertainment as they have had the pleasure of listening to for some time. The programme presented was as follows :—Action song, ‘’Birdie’s Ball,” by the Infants. This was a fine item, the dancing and singing of the small folk being good, and the number- was encored. A musical monolgue, l “The Lesson of the Watermill,” by Miss Eileen O’Brien, showed that this young lady had received careful training. Miss L. Bolitho, who has a sweet, sympathetic voice, - • rendered a solo, for which she received a well-merited encore. An operetta, ‘ ‘Dame |f)urden ’ s School, ’ ’ was presented by the pupils, the careful training which the children had received being very noticable, during this performance as all -the children acted their parts in a finished manner; the dancing being particularly graceful, the singing of good quality, while the setting of the piece and the lighting effects would have done credit to a much 1 bigger theatre.

' After a short interval an action song “Flower Bells” by the pupils was well received. Mrs Hewison, who was in splendid voice, sang “Lavender Days,” and for a well deserved encore “The Bird with a Broken Wing.” Miss Greta McGee :J danced a “Butterfly Dance” with finish and grace. Master Redmond Phillips rendered as a monologue, “Not' Understood,” a chorus “Eight Little Mothers” was sung very welf by a party of infants. The Senior Girls in their kimonas and with their large sunshades presented a Japanese parasol dance. Miss D. Leggoe with a party of girls sang a Rose,” while Miss L. Bolitho’s and Master Phillips’s voiecs blended well in a duet entitled “Slumber Sea.” Before the finalitem Dr W. A. Conlon, on behalf of the Rev. Mother and Sisters .of the Convent, returned thanks for the public support. Tie also thanked Messrs Wills, Walslabean and West and Master Wills ' for the decoration of the stage and the lighting, and the many other ladies and: gentlemen who had so willingly given their ■ services and helped to make the concert. the success it had been. The final item was-a'boatmen’s song rendered "by the pupils’grouped on the stage in a very effective setting. The singing of the New Zealand and the National Anthem brought the evening’s - entertainment to a close.