CONCERT IN DARKNESS
GREAT SINGER'S EXPERIENCE
WARM TRIBUTE BY AUDIENCE [us TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] CHRISTCHTJRCH, Friday The lights failed during Madame GalliCurci's concert at the Theatre Royal, owing to a defect in the city power service, but the singer carried on. The second half of the concert was due to begin, but there was no°sign of power being restored, and t-lie audience was amused when Mr. Homer Samuels came on to play his solos with a torch in his hand. He received a tremendous reception when he finished. When Madame Galli-Curci followed to sing two English songs the audience expressed their delight in no small measure. Hoping the lights would appear, she carried on from item fo itom until the end of the programme, and then she walked in with a torch and sat down at the piano to play her own accompaniment for an encore number. She was warmly applauded. "The people were very kind to us, and we appreciated it highly," she said after her somewhat trying experience. The concert ended before the lights were restored.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21278, 3 September 1932, Page 10
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