“DEVIL MAY CARE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 13, 6 April 1927, Page 9

“DEVIL MAY CARE”

RECITERS AND SINGERS A BAN ON EVERGREENS {Proiti Our Resident Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, To-day. Those who have suffered the tedious repetition of popular items at competitions will have sympathy with the Wellington teachers who, at the annual meeting of the Competitions Society, urged the desirability of debarring certain pieces in the “own selection” classes. It is scarcely necessary to enumerate some of the evergreens or moss-grown selections. In the elocution classes, for example, who is not ready to emulate the cockney and “ ’eave ’alf a brick” at the competitor who seeks fame with the recital of

“Devil May Care,” “Green Eye of the Yellow God,” “He Tried to Tell his Wife,” “Killed at the Ford,” and so on. Then there is the vocal soloist who will sing “Star of Eve,” “She is Far From the Land,” “Ye Banks and Braes,” and “Your Tiny Hand is Frozen.” i

These and many others have been ruled out by the executive of the society for the own selection classes at this year’s festival. In this, as in Ather things, Wellington is coming on.