MISS MARIE NILSSON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18293, 9 July 1921, Page 10

MISS MARIE NILSSON

VOCAL RECITAL TO-NIGHT,

Miss aide Nilsson's first vocal recital so widely spread abroad the richness of her equipment that it needs no special gift of divination to predict a crowded auditorium when tho famous Mcottish soprano faces her eecond audience in Bums Hall this evening. l ew. singers so young have attained fame in both the operatic and the concert platform domain. tier connection with the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company was one long succession of triumphs, and on the concert stage in England and on the Continent tiie has Leon accorded equal popularity.

it will bo n pleasure to patrons to learn that Miss Nilsson will introduce a new group ip Hebridean folksongs, those quaint, impressively simple, and charming * lyrics win! their wide range of passion, legendary loro, uiid sentiment, T,h© new group wifi oa.iq nio ” A _ Barra Love Lilt” and "A Fairy Love Lilt.” Tho operatic selections chosen are admirably calculated to display the bravura gift of' the artist. She will sing the famous polacca from “Mignon.” ”1. Sin» Titania.” and t.lie“One Fine Dav” aria from Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.” Other selections programmed are “Down the ?hollow River” and “Good Morning! Said the Thrush” (C'onningsby Clarke), “I Passed By Your Window” (Brahe); and two Scotch songs—“ Tho Scottish Blue Bells and Lost Mny a Braw Wooer. ’ ’ Mr Max Scherek will play “Allegro from Carnaval’s Jest” (Schumann) and “Ballade in A Flat” (Chopin). The plan for this recital is at the Bristol.

CHURCH UNION, TO TlUbi UIIITOH.

Snj,—As no uno nas to put forward a noii-churcnmaiTs standpoint, perhaps I may <io so. x was nr me puai ior fiOlac ycui’a ii lixOlliOUr t/i iUi irMcbtO'Loziuu, oi Onurch, as Juy jjiuuj oi itbiuciKio cauijyed toiiicc uiw uar 1 nave a Helmed no onurch at all. ’■the .Anglican Unuron, seemed to mo to be too formal and to make iittio spiritual appeal; tne Presbyterian to make a strong aioxtal, bat to lie unoouifoi-taoiy •‘haid ana fast” in its views; wiiile tho Methodist secured to give great nueileotuui Uceumii and also hu\o strung spiritual hie,—in lact although my views are now inconsistent perhaps with such conduct, i would huvo dilncaity in staying away from an average Methodist Chiircu if one More in reach. Of course, however, my viewpoint may be largely coloured by ray own peculiar tom--1 eminent.

Alter the war, il, scorned to me that Mammon mss all powerful,—men of largo wealth seem by propaganda lo raise any line ami cry necessary and to lead the very churches themselves, backed up as they are by the indirect power of wealth. For instance, recollect the Church's support of jingoism in all countries. In tho desperate cucuuistancos tlicy may, ot course, nave boon right, for all 1 know; but, since the Mar has been over, what, excuse is there for a v—lurch to bo silent rogirding the false heroics of war and Hie commercial aspect oil war and the loruigai rotations of the

LiSoUsted, thcrcluro, by tile apparent wcaiuiee* and insincerity oI mo c.lurches g> ntTaUy, i became poiwcstod of a strange but strong repugnance to going near them un.iuugii i. leaDse tli.u wiui good is bemg done is largely being done by li.em. 1 would like to sou a strong united church, however, taking a broad basis such as tho Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man and the Leadership oi Christ, free and open uj men u; au booties oi opinion “.steering upstream.” A church based on a clergy with “Ordination” claims reaching bank over tho ages instead o t natural gifts lor the work of tuo church (tiio same as- one has lor engineering or any Inanch of work or human activity) would seem to mo to-day to Ik* nothing but an anachronism. Such clergy would theiusches imagine they were what they were not or that (hey had authorities or powers which they had not. 1 am no expert in swell a matter as this, but an every-day churchman, as it were, earning my living hi a highly-educated calling. If Bishop Nevill cans to offer any answer I would bo glad of it. and would weigh carefully and as intelligently as I am able all that such answer might contain.—l am, etc.,

Wears Willie,

It is the boast of the dairymen of Holland that in then country there is a cow to every inlvabitant. A mosquito has twenty-two teeth, all of which may be ecen through a., microscope.