COMMUNITY SINGING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23203, 29 May 1937, Page 5

COMMUNITY SINGING

SUCCESSFUL OPENING DAY -The expectations of the Community Singing Committee were fully realised at the opening " sing " of the season yesterday; when the sum collected in the Strand Theatre amounted" to. £3O, which, when added to the promised donations, will bring the amount up to £IOO. The whole of this sum will be handed over to the Mayor (the Rev. E. T. Cox) fo'r the King George V Memorial Fund. A record house for ,an opening day greeted the Mayor when he performed the opening ceremony. Mr H. P. Desmoulins was the song leader, and he was assisted by Mr J. F. Himburg, with Mr Alf Pettitt at the piano. Introduced for the first time'at the "sings," the number "Now We're Happy" the words to which were written by Messrs D. Bell and J. F. Himburg, proved exceptionally popular, and as an opening number no more appropriate choice could have been made. '* Mr A. J. Jones (tenor), who made his first appearance befora a com-munity-singing audience, rendered " The Old Scotch Sangs," and as encores he sang "Cartload of Hay" and "The Garden where the Praties Grow." The other new number which was introduced by Mr Himburg was "Let's Have a Tiddeley at the Milk Bar," a song which the audience entered into with spirit.