CAPPING WEEK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27057, 16 April 1949, Page 6

CAPPING WEEK

DIVERSIFIED ACTIVITY NEW CONCERT FEATURES PROCESSION AS CLIMAX The annual capping week of the University of Otago will start this year with the capping concert in the St. James Theatre on Saturday, May 7, and will work up to a climax with the procession through the city area on May 11. The capping ball, one of the features of University social activities, will be held in the Town Hall on the night of the procession. The graduation ceremony is to be held on Tuesday, May 10. A change has been made in the type of concert to be presented this year, and the planning has gone on with the aim of producing entertainment based solely on student work* The University orchestra has been resurrected and will be taking part this year. There has been an increase in the number of humorous interludes to be staged, and special organised heckling should be a feature of the show. One of the best-known of the traditional features, the sextet, will again be present, and will render lyrics written by Keith Stronach. Three short farces which derive their interest from topical events and local personalities will also be staged. The scripts for all of them have been written by the students. Rehearsals for a specially bright ballet have been going well, and expectations are that this act will again be one of the features of the performance. The cast of the show will be 120, of whom 30 are women performers.

An augury of capping week will be provided at Carisbrook on April 30, when both capping bands will be present at a burlesque on American football by two teams from Knox and Selwyn Colleges. Always the most popular feature of capping activities, the procession is expected to fulfil all that is necessary to make it as successful as in the past. The proceeds will be in aid of the Crippled Children Society. The procession will leave the University at 11.J5 on Wednesday morning, May 11, and will pass through Union street to Cumberland street, Hanover street, Frederick street, George street, Princes street, Anderson’s Bay road and Crawford street, and finish at the Queen’s Gardens. . . The “official party” of “city dignitaries” will leave the procession at the Octagon- and address the people from the balcony of the Town Hall. May 10 and 11 will be the days on which capping books and immunity badges will be on sale. The 1949 capping book will cost Is 3d, and there' will be 14,000 copies of them. Last year £I2OO was collected, and the students hope to better that total this year. Immunity badges sold last year totalled 19,000, and the target set for 1949 is the sale of 20,000. _ For all activities, the band will be in attendance. v