TITLED CAROL SINGERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18333, 24 February 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

TITLED CAROL SINGERS.

ENTERPRISE IN LONDON.

Women of title "were among a party of masked carol singers who gave concerts in London at Christmas outside big West End houses, and inside others, all for the cause of charity. All wore short black velvet and lace masks over the upper part of their faces.

In a three hours' round of calls they sometimes sang from the street and sometimes in entrance halls; they paid a number of surprise visits as "well as others of which due notice had been given to friends and acquaintances.

Old English carols were included in a varied programme, and there "were also luets and quartets. They were excellently sung, and not the least appreciative ludiences were the street groups who by :hance came upon the choir at different points and guessed at the identity of this masked company. Motors were in waiting for covering longer distances. Among the. party of carol singers were Lady Diana Cooper, Lady Maude Warrender, Lady Churston, Mrs. Auberon Kennard, Mrs. Wilfred Egerton, Miss Lewis, Miss Marjorie Gordon, Miss Gwendoline Brogden, Miss Farquharson, Lord Gerald Wellesley, and Mr. Bertram Binyon. Miss Olga Lynn was leader, rehearsals having been conducted under her direction. Princess Obolenaky had taken part in rehearsals, but was unable to join in the carols through indisposition. " It is great fun," said a member of the party, " and the enjoyment of the outing is all the more when we reflect that it is helping a very deserving movement, the Dockland Settlement fund.

" We get £1 or £2 at each house where we sing, so that at the end we count on handing over a nice little sum."

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