ELDRED-TABOR RECITAL

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2308, 28 November 1925, Page 12

ELDRED-TABOR RECITAL

The Opera House was comfortably filled last night when Misses Eldred and Tabor gave their combined elocutionary and dancing recital. The programme was a lengthy one and some of the pupils showed great promise while others were stage shy and did not come up to their usual standard. In tne elocutionary section the honours were divided amongst Master Weldon Whelan (who gave a' most comical performance in the “Elocution Judge”), Master Billie Shannon (“Tommy Brown Told Mo”), Miss Daisy Osborne (musical sketch “That Bad Tooth”), Miss Milly Cadle and Master Ralph Holmes (“David Copperfleld and The Waiter”), and Miss Grace Taylor (“Daisy Dell”). Master Ralph Holmes also gave a particularly fine interpretation of "To-morrow”. The other performers in the elocutionary section did wonderful work in the tasks set them, but in some cases the pieces recited were rather too ambitious and they would have done better to have chosen simpler studies. The dancing of Miss Tabor’s pupils was very good, great patience and perseverance must have been needed to have trained some of the pupils up to such a high standard. Especially was careful tuition noticeable in the performances of Misses Joyce Turner, Gladys Taylor, Betty Amos, and Ola Williams. Joyce Turner scored distinct success in her acrobatic dance and “Chrysanthemums”. Gladys Taylor is a very vivacious dancer and her arms show very pretty natural curves. She was especially good in “The Spirit of Happiness” and in the "Simultaneous” dance with Cathie Brown. Betty Amos danced well and was at her best in “Sprint”, but her footwork is not always as finished as it might be. Miss Ola Williams was splendid in all her numbers, which Included “A Golden Fairy”, “A Dutch Study” and skipping dance. The ballets* were well performed and arranged, the gem of the evening being the pierrot ballet, in which Miss Diana Tabor danced the solo and the audience-- would have Weed to have seen more of , this talented young lady’s dancing. The fuchsia ballet was also deserving of high praise. At the close of the performance, the pupils were the recipients of

sweets and flow-ers. The music for the dancing was ably played by Miss Eyre’s orchestra, while Mr Rupert McFadden was stage manager.