PLEASING CONCERT

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 57, Issue 4001, 2 June 1948, Page 11

PLEASING CONCERT

HELD AT WHITIANGA ARRANGED BY INSTITUTE There was a large audience present when the women’s institute concert party visited Whitianga. The party was handicapped by lack of a stage and proper dressing rooms in the partly erected hall, while seating accommodation was far from luxurious, but there was no doubt that everyone spent a most enjoyable evening. All the items were popular but Mrs N. Lithgow’s delightful voice and Mr G. Pinnock’s fine singing were specially pleasing to the adults in the audience. Miss Didi Paetai and the Browne sisters were a delight to all and especially to the youngsters. Mrs D. Brady and Mrs G. Pinnock were very amusing in the sketch “ Mind Over Matter,” and Mrs Brady nearly brought the house down when she presented a monologue, “ As I was saying yesterday, Mrs Thomas.” Mrs Sharpies, president of the Mercury Bay Women’s Institute, welcomed the visitors. At the close of the programme Mrs Pinnock thanked all those present, and the members of the concert party for the successful evening, and for their goodwill and comradeship. A call for three cheers for the concert party was well responded to.

The concert closed with the national anthem and then the young people cleared the hall for a dance.

The items were: The Browne sisters, Silent Night and The Bells of St. Mary’s; Mrs Lithgow, Sing Happy Birds and The Old Refrain; Miss Helen Twentyman, monologue; Miss Didi Paetai, tap dance; Mrs Mill and Mrs Crawford, pianoforte duet; Mrs Pinnock and Mrs Brady, sketch, Mind Over Matter; Browne sisters, action

songs; Mercury Bay Women’s Institute, play; Miss J. Brady, songs, Indian Love Lyrics; Mrs Scott, elocution; Mr and Mrs Pinnock, sketch, Breakfast For Two; Mrs Lithgow and Mr Pinnock, vocal duets; Miss Didi Paetai, tap dances; Miss Twentyman, recitation; Mrs Crawford, pianoforte solo; Mr Pinnock, songs; Master Peter Clark, violin solo; Mrs Brady, monologue; Browne sisters, songs, including Now is the Hour.