MISS ETTA FIELD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 37, 6 May 1927, Page 13

MISS ETTA FIELD

AT THE REGENT TO-NIGHT A noteworthy event in Auckland musical circles is the return, after three years’ intensive study abroad, of Miss Etta Field, the talented young New Zealand artist. Miss Field will be heard at the New Regent Theatre for one week, commencing this evening. It is a matter of comment that she is the first Auckland vocalist to appear at this theatre, and the management is to be commended upon giving local talent such an opportunity. Miss Field studied in Auckland among such well-known teachers as Madame Wielaert, Professor Lorraine, Dr. Kenneth Phillips and Mr. Walter Gray. She was tjien frequently singing before local .audiences, including the late Orchestral Society and the Bohemian Orchestra, and several other societies in this city? she also toured New Zealand on two occasions. Later Miss Field proceeded to Australia and entered upon,a course of 18 months’ study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and during that period had the honour of singing with Henri Verbruggen’s New South Wales Orchestra. Following this came a trip to England and the Continent, in which places Miss Field received tuition under Madame Kennard, of London, and Madame D’Argo and M. Mark Raphael of Paris and London. Miss Field still remains first and foremost a New Zealander, and already the leading musical societies and public men of Auckland are holding out the hand of weclome and support to their fellow citizen during her appearances at the Regent. The management of the Regent has also granted Miss Field the valuable assistance of Mr. Maurice Gutteridge, the Regent’s master of music, who is writing special orchestral scores for Miss Field’s numbers and will personally conduct her with the full orchestra.