SAVAGE CLUB.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 December 1927, Page 4

SAVAGE CLUB.

CHRISTMAS CHEER CONCERT. GOOD ENTERTAINMENT ON ’DECEMBER 8. The Hawera Savage Club will again, make its annual effort to provide benefits for the inmates of the Old People’s Home and the Public Hospital in the form of a concert to be nekl at the Opera House, Hawera, on Thursday, December 8. The old people are regarded as the special charge of the club at the festive season, and in order to provide .some luxuries for them and the patients at the Public Hospital the function has been made an annual event. The two previous performances have included many, unique item’s and a wealth of humour intermixed with talented solo numbers. They have been pronounced unqualified successes, and this year’s effort is expected to uphold the reputation won in previous years. The haka team, composed of stalwart members of the club, have been assiduously practising new hakas for some time under the able tutorship of Mr. Scotty Panenui.' The Savage Club orchestra will open the programme with', a lively _ operatic selection, and with this and its other numbers is expected to. uphold the reputation it enjoys. Its efforts at previous concerts and at the club’s koreros have always been a feature of the occasion, and it is now playing _ better than ever. The programme includes several novel features, in the preparation of which various members of the club are hard at work, and an abundance o'f comedy is assured. A one-act item “Society'Gossip,” featuring local celebrities and. topical discussions which gave rise to much amusement at the club’s korero. has been revised for the occasion, and should prove a great attraction.* Another humorous item will be the “Wandering Musician,” ;who plays with much .skill on an imt>revised instrument and _ whose behaviour during the rendering of an instrumental duet creates some amusing and unusual situations. A departure is being made from previous concerts in that a part of the programme- will be rendered by members of the New Plymouth Savage Club. Reports of the'staging in New Plymouth of a comedy entitled “Evening Dress Indispensable” are exceedingly promising, and the club members aTe looking forward to this item with great expectation. The supporting artists rank amongst the most talented members of the _ New Plymouth Club, and comprise singers and humorists of a high order. The ooliev of the Programme Committee has been to secure, as many new performei-s as possible and to provide a bright, varied, and snappy programme.