AUCKLAND CARNIVAL WEEK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18348, 14 March 1923, Page 10

AUCKLAND CARNIVAL WEEK

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME

MILITARY DISPLAY AT DOMAIN.

The Entertainment Committee which is organising the programme, for the Carnival Week met last evening, Mr. J. p. Swann presiding. The secretary, Mr. D. E. Stacey, presented the programme for the five nights' entertainments, which will be given by the Carnival Revue Company in the Town Hall concert chamber. Each evening there will be vocal and musical items, humorous songs and dancing displays by the pupils of Miss Cecil Hail and Miss Eileen Beresford ; and the programme will conclude with a onet-act sketch. On Tuesday, March 30, a good programme will bo given in the Town Hall. The committee will have the assistance of the Auckland Society of Musicians, including the Misses Evelyn Wyman, Dora Judson, Mina Caldow, Mrs. Cyril Towsoy, and Messrs Eric Waters, Harold Baxter, Barry Coney, George Poole, Mr. Cyril Towsey, and Mr. Leo Whittaker. In addition, thare will be a novel attraction, the " March Hongroise," to bo played bv 16 lady musicians on eight, pianos. The box plan for this concert will open at Lewis B. Eady and Son, Ltd., on Friday. Preceded by a torchlight procession, comprising Navy, Army, Fire Brigades, University students, Sea Scouts, and decorated Chinese cars, which leaves the bottom of Queen Street at 7.15 p.m., a naval and military tattoo and gymkhana will ba held in the Domain on Thursday, March 22, commencing at 8 o'clock. The programme at the Domain includes a march past by the troops, military torchlight figure march by the Auckland Mounted Rifles and the Ist Auckland Infantry Battalion (SCO performers), naval physical training display by the recruits rom H.M.S. Philomel* and display by the Y.M.C.A. gymnastic squad. A sham attack, which will be an exact reproduction of an attack in France, will be. given by the New Zealand Artillery, introducing bombs, artillery fire, and S.O.S. flares. There, will also be a display by the Calliope troop of Sea Scouts, and an exceptionally novel turn by the University student*, with a fireworks display to conclude. In addition to the foregoing, on Thursday evening tho preliminary pulls will take place in connection with the tug of war competition. The Domain will be brilliantly illuminated, while the New Zealand Engineers will put on some effective lighting displays, utilising spirit flares.