WELLINGTON SAVAGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19383, 19 July 1926, Page 12

WELLINGTON SAVAGES.

VISIT TO AUCKLAND CLUB. NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN. Sixty-five members of the Wellington Savage Club entertained members of the Auckland Savage Club on Saturday evening and those present At the function are not likely to forge,t it. Mr. E. Blundell, rangitira of the visiting club, was in the chair.

The visitors were warmly welcomed by Mr. J. H. Hutchison, who said it was about 17 years since a large party from Wellington visited the Auckland Club. He hoped interchanges of visits would be more frequent in the future. The visitors presented a programme that was at once novel and attractive and it was received with the greatest enthusiasm by the large attendance. A clever skit called "The Vamp," a travesty on the amorous machinations of Cleopatra, was the principal entertainment. If Cleopatra could have gazed upon the scene she would probably have been very annoyed. The Cleopatra of the skit was a man, who made the lady appear an indecorous vamp. Her troupe comprised solicitors, accountants and merchants admirably well got up. The plot concerned the endeavours of Cleopatra, or Cleo, as she was termed, to keep all her lovers, including Anthony and Caesar. How she was haunted by a faithful lover in the shape of a ghost and how every thing worked its way out to a happy ending was as funny as anything could be.

The Savages mixed things well and truly. Tired of her troupe, Cleopatra had by way of diversion a very clever man-and-man exposition of an American tango. Excerpts from "II Trovatore" and "Samson and Delilah" were also worked into the scheme of things. The producer of the skit was Mr. Harison Cook, who was called upon to make a speech. Items by the visiting orchestra, under the baton of Mr. F. Thomas, were greatly appreciated and encores were liberally given. Diversions by Messrs. BaHon Ginger, A. R. Brockenhurst and Harison Cook were also very well received. "You have given us a wonderful welcome and we are looking forward to the time, when Auckland Savages will visit Wellington," Mr. Blundell said. "From the time we stepped off - the train this morning we have been received with 'the greatest hospitality." The evening came to a conclnsion with some good-natured bantering about the wind of Wellington and the flappers of Auckland, and the spirited singing of "Auld Lang Syne" and the National Anthem.