SEVENTH DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10210, 21 February 1919, Page 3

SEVENTH DAY

SOME INTERESTING CONTESTS. At the competitions yesterday there were satisfactory attendances, and an interesting: group of contests. •;. The morning session opened with the musical monologue test, for which there v ore fifteen entrants. This contest revealed some good talent, and the judge, Mr .1. F. Montague, decided to recall four of the performers. There were 42 young ladies contesting the junior champion recitation for girls under 1G- The judging of - this big class in the concert chamber monopolised practically the whole of the afternoon. Other tests decided during the day "were the pianoforte solo test, the ladies' Scots EOng contest, the Highland dancing test, and the prepared speech competition. Following are the competitions with entrants and iecalls:— • Recital with Musical Accompaniment, lady or gentleman under 21 (pathetic or dramatic); own selections, entrants—Miss Majorie J. Troup, Wellington ("Be Britons"); Miss Sylvia V. TJdy, Petono ("Laugh and -the World Laughs with You"); Miss'Ethel Sullivan, Wellington ("Johnny, Me and You"); Miss Doris Stevens, Wellington ("Playmate"); Miss Iris H. A. Trim, Wellington ("The Little Red Ribbon"); Miss Fanny Kutner, Wellington ("Mad Carev"); Miss Gladys E. Beckley, Wellington ("Home, Sweet Home"); Miss Madge Shearer, Lower Hutt ("Old Chap"); Miss Alice L. Jacobson, Wellington ("The Toy Gun"); Miss Pauline Shotlander, Wellington ("Behind the Veil") : Miss Bertha' Cross, Lower Hutt ("Our Debt of Honour"); Miss May McDonald, Kilbirnio ("Tho Scrapper and the Nut"); Mr Fergus B. Beeves, Wellington ("Home, Sweet Home"); Mr L. H. J. Power ("Crossing the Bar"): Mastor L. Riddell, Wellington ("Christmas Bells"). Misses Stevens, Kutner, Shotlander, and Mr Power were recalled. Miss Jacobson and Master Riddell were highly comThe judge congratulated Master Riddell on his meritorious performance. Piano Solo, lady or gentleman; second section-, (b) own selection—Miss Hannah Spire (Dunedin), "Pathetique Sonata" (Beethoven); Miss Linda M. Riddell (Wellington), "Lieberstraum" (Litz); Mr P. A. Holmes (Blenheim), "Nocturne in B Major" (Chopin); Miss Gladys M. Lorimer (Chnstchurch), "Fantasie Impromptu, C minor" (Chopin). Misses, Spire, Riddell, and Lorimer were recalled. , Scots Song, ladies, own selection—Miss Jean Nicholas, Wellington ("We'd Bet*e,r Bido a Wee"); Miss Mabel S. Dyer. Chnstchurch. ("Angus Macdonald"); Miss Cicely Andibert, Chnstchurch ("Angus Macdonald"); Miss Alexu Elton, Wellington ("Annie Laurie"); Miss Eva Harris, Wellington ("O Barthwell Bank"). Miss Dorothy Ward, Wellington ("Cam' ye by Athol"); Miss Jean Lennie, Wellington ("Bonnie Wood o' Craigilea"); Miss Bdith. M. Paterson, Wellington ("Afton Water"); Miss Delhia O'Connor, Wellington ("My Ain Folk"). Misses Nicholas, Dyer, and Audibert were recalled.

Junior Champion Recitation, girls, under 16, own selection—Miss Dons Neaie, Wellington ("The Day is Done"); Miss Fay Smyth, Wellington ("Big Steamers"); Miss Muriel Carson, Kilbirnie ("Pennarby Mine"); Miss Ina F. Farquhar, Wellington ("An Incident"); Miss Hazel C. Daries, Island Bay ("Tho Snake and the Baby"); Miss Gladys Hall, Lyall Bay ("The Yellow Dog"); Miss Gertrude L. Austin, Lyall Bay ("Tho Grand Seigneur"); Miss Mavis L. Halliday, Hataitai ("Tho Gift of the Tritemius"); Miss Mildred East. Miramar ("Lorraine, Lorraine, Loree"): Miss Marie McCarthy, Miramar <"Jini' ; ); Miss NgaiTe E. D. Phipson, Wellington ("The Fool"); Miss Olive Archer, Wellington ("The Old Stage Queen"); Miss Pearl Jacobs, Wellington ("Killed «t the Ford"); Miss Aggie Atkins, Lower Hutt ("The Gift of the Tritemius"); Miss Lottie J. Harris, Hataitai ("Ring Out, Wild Bells"); Miss Muriel E. Aitcheson, Wellington ("Before I go to Bed");. Miss Nancy Cashman, Wellington ("My Shadow") ; Miss Beatrice M. Smith, Kilbirnie ("The Song of the Market Place"); Miss Annie C Flan, Wellington ("Hero of the Commune"); Miss Leah Hyman, Hataitai ("Sophie Perovskaya"); Miss Thelma Aitken, Wellington ("Ring Out, Wild Bells"); Miss Muriel Freeman, Timaru ("The Road to Heaven"); Miss Ngaire Coster, Wellington ("His First Long Trousers"); Miss Dorothy McDowell, Wellington ("The Hour"); Miss Betty Menard. Wellington ("A God After All"); Miss Phyllis Alartin, Wellington ("The Beautiful World"); Miss Clare E. Nichols, Hataitai ("Jim"); Miss Rita Perry, Wellington ("The Heroic Girl"); xMiss Evelyn Walton, Lower Hutt ("Papa's Letter'"); Miss Stella Chapman, Christchurch ("In School Days"); Miss Lily Huntington, Ngaio ("A God After All"); Miss Jean C. Sutherland, Wellington ("Little Boy Blue"); Miss Irene Kound, Christchurch ("Ballad of Lorraine"); Miss Bertha Cross, Lower Hutt ("Mother Land and Lion Cubs"); Miss Arita Howe Wellington ("The Old Kettle"); Miss Sinclair Breen, Wellington ("The Jewel"); Miss Hazel Hardwicke, Wellington ("Wynkem, Blynkem, and Nod"); Miss Roma Bibossi Wellington ("Little Boy Blue"); Miss Mary Cooley, Wellington. ("Butterflies"); Miss Isabell Lithgow, Wellington ("Song of the Camp"); Miss Fanny Hyman, Hataitai ("Children's Hour"); Miss Ada ThornP-> son, Wellington ("Guilty or Not Guilty ). Tho following were recalled:—Misses Phipson Jacobs, Atkins, and Cooley. The judge highly commended Misses Howe, Breen, and Hardwicke, and commended Misses L. Hyman, Coster, Menard, Chapman. Huntington, Kound, Bitbssi. and F. Hyman. Reed of Tullooh in costume, 12 and under 16—Miss Rita Hands, Kilbirnie; Miss Doreen McClatchy, Newtown; Miss H H. Needhain, Wellington; Miss Annie Currie, Wellington; Miss Vera Flan, Wellington; Miss Margaret A. O'Connor; Miss Elsie M. Burns, Wellington. Misses Hands, McClatchy, JNeedham. 'and Currie danced together, and Misses Finn, O'Connor, Burns, and Hands made the other set. _ The recalls were:—Misses Hands, Currie, Flan, and Burns. There were three entrants in the prepared speech contest. The speech was on any statesman, soldier or sailor of tho Allied nations not deceased ' prior to mi-t. Following was the resint:--Mr V, Evn"ns. Lower Hutt (King Albert) 167 marks. .1: Mr Chnrles Gordon Kirk, TCelburn (Jack Cornwall). 160 marks, 2; Mt C. J. Ffnff. Wellington (Captain Fryatt), 136 marks, 3s.