COMPETITIONS’ SOCIETY,

Otago Witness, Issue 3996, 14 October 1930, Page 24

COMPETITIONS’ SOCIETY,

TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL

FESTIVAL.

FINAL DEMONSTRATION CONCERTS. The twenty-ninth annual festival of the Dunedin Competitions Society was brought to finality on Saturday, when two demonstration concerts were given in Hiq Majesty’s Theatre. These concerts served a dual purpose, bringing in additional revenue to the society and also providing an opportunity for the successful to show the public their capabilities as artists. Both programmes, which included instrumental and vocal music, elocutionary items, and dancing, were admirably selected, and patrons had the pleasure of listening to delightfully varied perform-? ances. The attendance on each occasion was very good, and the performers, who acquitted themselves really well, were rewarded with hearty applause. The programme at the matinee was as follows: —Child’s action song (“A Little Coon’s Prayer”), Master Jack Kane; humorous recitation (“Nugly Face”), Master Bobby Whale; dance duo. Misses Frances and Joan Bryan; violin solo (“'Wistfulness”), Master Stuart Scott; song for girls (“Fairy Lullaby”), Miss Joy Knowles; character recital (“Titania”), Miss Ngaire Glue; classic dance. Miss Gwenneth Watson; piano solo (“Le Petit Rein”), Miss Edith Sutherland; child’s action song (“Buy My Roses”), Miss Ruewi Clancy; recitation (“To a Favourite Cat”), Miss Norma Brown; dance duo (“Columbine and Harlequin”), Misses Anzac Patton and Myra Lord; song for boys (“ Birth of Morn ”), Master Herbert Henry; ballet (“ An Episode”), Otago School of Dancing; piano duet (“Pixies Spinning”). Misses Rona Kitchen and Myra Wilson; children’s duet (“Two Dutch Dolls”), Miss Myra Murdoch and A. Clark; humorous recitation (“In the Tram”), Miss Joy Knowles; violin solo (“Idyll”). Master Douglas Fowler; child’s action song (“Arcadian Lullaby ”), Miss Lily Shrimpton; humorous recitation (“Cleanliness”), Master Mervyn Kay; step dance (“Buttons”), Miss Joyce Todd; piano solo (“Soldiers' March”), Miss Rona D. Kitchen; child’s action song (“Mickey Mouse”), Miss Shirley M’Clatchey; recitation (“An Incident”), Master Victor Sparrow; skipping rope dance. Miss Jean Brown; child’s action song (“Chong”), Master Earl Collie; fancy dance (“ Danse Characteristique”), Miss Loretta Kay. In the evening the following items were given:—Ballet (“Romance Sans Paroles”), Otago School of Dancing; piano duet (“Pixies Spinning”), Misses Patricia Johnson and Zoe Knight; humorous recitation (“ Breath ”), Miss Daphne Morrison; child’s action song (“ The Indian Papoose”), Miss Alice Clark; fancy dance (character, Russian), Miss Agnes Stewart; violin solo (“ Serenato ”), Miss Ethel Todd; vocal solo (“Elsa’s Dream”), Miss Evelyn Shepard; dialogue (“ Ase’s Death”), Misses Dessa Stabb and Margaret Seelye; ballet dance (“Danse Joyeuse”), Miss Irene Scott; songs for girls (“ Fairy Lullaby ”), Miss Gwen Dewhirst; piano solo (“ Soldiers’ March ”), Miss Gladys Parker ;vocal solo, Mrs Lionel Graham; musical monologue (“The Difference”), Mr Lester Moller; fancy dance (“Harlequin”), Miss Joyce Todd; bass solo (“ Droop Not, Young Lover”), Mr E. R. Benton; vocal solo, (“Who is Sylvia?”), Mr J. Kennedy; classic dance (“The Spirit of the Rose”), Miss Daphne Morrison; secondary schools’ choir (“A Lake and a Fairy Boat”), Otago Girls’ High School Choir; church choir contest (“ Fierce w r as the Wild Billow”), Caversham Methodist Church Choir; piano duet (“ Spring ”), Miss Edna Todd and Joyce Isaacs; recitation (“Dabbling in the Dew”), Miss Adele Marks; skipping rope dance. Miss Frances Bryan; vocal solo (“The Lass with the Delicate Air”), Miss Dorothy Dagg; piano solo (“ Minuet in D ”), Master Jack Ellis; humorous recitation (“ Mrs M'Learie’g Country Visit ”), Master K. Stewart; dance duo (“Seaside Revels”), Misses Daphne Irwin and Loretta Kay; vocal solo (“ Sappische Ode”), Miss Margaret E. Howden; children’s duet (“ The Twins”), Masters W. Bunting and 'H. Dewhirst; recitation (“Pooh and I”), Miss Ngaire Glue; violin solo (“ Bolero ”), Miss Aileen Smith; children’s duet (“Lilac Time"), Misses-Gwen Dew-hirst and Lily Shrimpton; classic dance, Miss Ethel Todd; recitation (“Victor of Marengo”), Master Neil Ferguson; contralto solo (“Author of All My Joys”), Miss Margaret Green; dance. Miss Dorothy Judd; half-hour entertainment, The Twinkiers.