DANCE RECITAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2049, 29 November 1924, Page 5

DANCE RECITAL.

MISS SMALES' PUPILS. Exceptionally good dressing and graceful dancing were the outstanding features of the dawco recital given at the People's theatre last night by the pupils of Miss Clare Smales. Some of the dancers were very youthful, and the dancing of these little tots was particularly creditable to Miss Smales. • The opening number was a woodnymph ballet. After a soio dance by a brightly claid fairy (11. Speight) two little nymphs (J. Walsh and Julia Palmer) flitted through a dainty measure to shrink into the background as a fantastic rawbit (D. Brown) camo leaping into view. He was followed by a pair of flowers (M. Carroll and R. Speight), and a charming concerted ballot completed the number. A saucy title soubre'tte, who immediately captured the audience, was little M. Cahjll in the nautical song, "Oh, What d Difference the Navy's Made To Me," in which she was supported by M. Carroll and B. Floyd in a fantastic hornpipe. Two dignified little figures, who might have been transported from the Court of St. James when Anne was Queen, danced a gavotte. With all the elaborate bows and courtseys and dainty waving of kerchiefs of that stately period, they performed the intricate figures of tho dances with excellent effect. Little M. Cahill, in satin breeches, powdered peruke and embroidered coat, took the male part, and R. Speight made a charming miniature of an eighteenth century lady. -Another gorgeously frocked number was an Eastern ballet. The central figure was Miss Bjaby Hewitson in a harem costume of gold satin. She very evidently possesses a strong natural talent for the dance. Her arm movements, the stumbling blrfek of most ama.teurs ; were exceedingly smooth and graceful, and sho managed the hand poswonis characteristic of Oriental dancing in an equally exceptional manner. The other members of the ballet were: J. Washer, J. Palmer, ad R. Speight. Miss Hewitson also danced in a solo entitled "The Butterfly." Tho concludng item, a ragtime jazz, in which M. CahiiU took the song solo, "Oli, Lady,'' with Miss Hewitson as the solo dancer, and B. Floyd and M. Carroll as the jazz cStto, s worthy of special mention. The costumes were particularly vivid and original. Vocal numbers contributed by Miss Phyllis Atkinson, "Still as the Night", and encore "1 Love the Moon," Mr Blackmail "Young Tom o' Devon," "Crown of the Year," "The Mountain Lovers," and "The Stoker," and Mr Campbell (Horahora) "Glorious Dovun," "Hail Oalodonia," and "Mau,tka." <o the pleasure of the evening. "5-. i- -—binder of tV dances were "Valse iriste,' r>. uloya; ' Humoreske," Julia Palmer; Exercise Display, B. Floyd, M. Carroll, M. Calull, and R. Speight - Eiuythmic solos, B. Floyd and M. Carroll, and a pretty "vintage dance" by R. Speight. The accompaniments were played by Misses Walsh and D. Evans.