TERRACE END SCHOOL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 221, 18 August 1932, Page 2

TERRACE END SCHOOL

SPLENDID CONCERT PROGRAMME. The annual concert of the Terrace End School, held in the Coronation Hall yesterday afternoon and evening, I was a splendid success. This was the : first time that botli afternoon and evening sessions bad been arranged, and l there was no doubt about the wisdom lof the innovation. Oil both occasions the Coronation Hall was packed and the financial result will he very satisfactory. In previous years it has been impossible to accommodate the large i audience in the evening, and by entertaining the infant children in the afternoon yesterday, the accommodation was not so severely taxed in the evening, though the hall was crowded. | The Terrace End School children had previously set a remarkably high standard in their performances, but those which were witnessed yesterday demonstrated that the pupils had quite excelled themselves. Diverse in nature, and containing items calculated to appeal to all tastes, the programmes comprised vocal and instrumental solos and concerted numbers, attractive folk dancing, elocutionary items and several well-presented sketches. It was realised bj' the audience that the teaching staff, under Air A. W. Thompson’s direction, had patiently trained the children to a high pitch of perfection. The costumes showed care in design and make-up, and the staging was a marked success. In all departments attention to detail resulted in smooth working and convincing performance. Speaking in the evening, Air AY. B. Cameron, chairman of the committee, returned thanks to the staff for its efforts in assisting to raise the necessary finance to keep the school in good order. Now that the department was not paying subsidies and the capitation grants had been reduced, the raising of funds was a very necessary matter. Air Thompson, at the afternoon session, thanked the parents for their cooperation and attendance. Tiie afternoon programme was as follows :—Overture, June Stidoiph; song, Primer 4 girls, “To Fairyland” ; songs, Primers 1 and 2, “Jack Frost,” j “Creep, Little Alousey,” “One, Two,” |“Twinkle, Twinkle”; nursery rhymes in character, Primers 2 and 3; sketch, Primer 4 boys, “Robinson Crusoe”; songs Standard 1, “The Grove,” "Bobby Shaftoe.” “Golden Slumbers,” “The Old Couple”; piano solo, Jean Tarr; songs, J. Cunningliame, “Hoppity,” “Has Anybody Seen Aly Alouse?” recitation, Ray Sullivan, “The Aicssago of the Flag” ; songs, Standards 2 and 3, “Rio _ Grande,” j “Autumn,” “Three Pumpkins”; folk dance, Standards 2 and 3, “Skipping Dance” ; solo, B. Priest, “The Woodpecker” ; instrumental trio, Joan and Graham Patou and Neil Bowden; folk dance, Standards 2 and 3, “Flirtation”; songs, Standard 2, “Billy Boy.” j “Red Indian Lullaby,” “Sixpence”; song, J. AlcNeilly, “The Fairy”; folk dance, Standards 3 and 4, “Jenny Pluck Pears”; Irish jig, Rosemary Small; sketch, Standard 4, “Ten Little Nigger Boys.” Jn the evening the following programme was presented : —Overture, Nellie Stidoiph; songs, Standards 3 and 4, “The Fisherman,” “Here’s a Health,” “Heave Away”; song, Beryl Russell, “All the Tears” ; folk dance, Standards 3 and 4, “Jenny Pluck Pears” ; recitation, N. Hankin, “AYhat’s in a Name?” song, Basil j Priest; historical sketch, “Alfred the! Great”; songs, John Cuiininghaino; folk dances, Standards 4 and 5, “Nine- > pins,” “Winifred’s Knot” ; piano solo, J. Stidoiph, “'The Old Tovmaker”; song, Standard 3, “Skye Boat Song”; recitation, N. Stidoiph, “The Sand-! man” ; songs, Standard 6, “Shenan- ; doali,” “Sally Brown,” “Blow the ! Alan Down,” “It Was a Lover and His Lass”; ’cello solo, Joan Patou; song, “Wynkin, Blynkin and Nod”; Irish jig, Rosemary Small; “Reap tho Flax,” Standard 5; recitation, J. Hunter-Will, “Jim”; songs, Standard 4, “Widdicombe Fair,” “Johnny, Come Down to Hilo”; recitation, E. Davidson, “The Grey Squirrel”; folk, dance, [ “The Old Aloie” ; songs, Standard 5, boys, “Hoea Ra,” “The Outlaws,” “Can’t You Dance the Polka?” ; folk dances, Standard 0, “If All the AA orld Were Paper,” “Alaze on a C’ree”; sketch, “Ten Little Nigger Boys”; song, Alurdoch Campbell, “Kerry Dance” ; songs, Standards 5 and 6, j “float Song,” “As Chimes That Float,” “I’ve Found Afy Bonny Babe a Nest” ; sketch, Standard 6, “Redskin and White.”