SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENTS

Otago Witness, Issue 3743, 8 December 1925, Page 27

SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENTS

BUSY CHILDREN’S DAY. The leeiurette given by Dr Marion Radcliffo Taylor in the Women's Court on rhura. div was attended by a good audience or ladies. Dr Taylor took as her subject ‘ Infantile Faralysis.” and dealt fully with important faots dealing with the disease m ail its forms. By 'harts and graphs she showed the most, infectious periods ip the life of a child, traced the spread of the last terrible epidemic, and dealt with the results of investigations in various health districts. At the close of the lorture, Dr Taylor answered many questions put to her by interested members of the audienoe. The trained voices of children are always delightful and the freshness and beauty of the volume of sound produced by the 500 children in the combined schools’ choir at the Festival Hall in the evening was fully appreciated by th e large audience. In each of the varied numbers on a long programme, the conductor, Mr W. R. Don, produced really excellent effect from th© army of young vocalists under his baton; and to him must go the credit of a difficult undertaking well performed. The choir opened the programme with the National Anthem, in which Noel Lawson took tha solo part. “Now in the Month of May," a light and airy English folk song, followed, and the national part songs, indud-

Jng “The Meeting of the Waters” and “Blow Away the Morning Dew,” were sung with pleasing interpretation. English, Irish, Welsh, and Scottish folk-songs occupied the greater part of the evening, and a round, “Fie, Nay, Prithee John,” offered a bright and effective interlude. A cradle part-song, “Roses, Whisper Good-night,” and a selection of such time-honoured and well-loved Christmas carols as “While Stars of Christmas Shine” and “Good King Wenceslas” Was also included, and the programme was brought to a close by the singing of “God Defend New Zealand. Misses D. M’Laughlan, A. Lavender, and D. M'Xay, and Hasters W Walker and (1. Gallon, gave delightful solo items. Nancey Low and Lester Holler recited effectively; and a special number, the Exhibition Festival March, was given by the accompanist, Mr W- Paget Gule, and the choir.