DUNEDIN COMPETITIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19584, 14 September 1925, Page 10

DUNEDIN COMPETITIONS.

The Dunedin Competitions Society’s twenty-fourth annual festival will commence as His Majesty's Theatre to-morrow morning. The piano solo "Valse Brilliante” will be held in His Majesty’s Theatre at 10.30 a.m., and in the afternoon recitations will bo held in the Victoria Hall, fancy dancing in His Majesty's Theatre, and national dancing in the Burns Hall. in the evening the official opening will take place, and an attractive programme has been arranged, opening with the combined ballets, and including the piano duet "Nordescher”; recitation, “The Knights Toast": sean triubhais: vocal solo, ladies, own selection; skipping-rope dance; piano solo, "Valse Briiliante”; humorous recitation, men; and vocal duet, men, “ Song of the Sword.” Excellent entries have been received for this year’s festival, and some interesting competitions should take place during the session. A pleasing feature is the excellent entry that has been received for the choir contest. Seven choiis will be competing m the choir contest—three in the ladies’ choir contest and two m the male choir contest, while there will be two in the school choir contest. Excellent entries have been received for the combined ballet, and those have been divided into two competitions, the first being hold on the opening night and the second on the final night of the competitions, while there will bo first-class competitions in every other section. Everything points to the twenty-fourth festival of the society being a highly suceesstul one. The box plan is now open at the Bristol, and a limited number of season tickets are on sale. They can be obtained on application to the secretary.