NEW MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 7

NEW MUSICAL DIRECTOR

TO CONDUCT ORCHESTRA AT CIVIC THEATRE MR. TED HENKLE ARRIVES "I've been kept moving too fast since l landed in Wellington yesterday to see much of your country, but I think 1 am going to like it.” Mi*. Ted Henkle, musical director of the new Civic Theatre, had just stepped from the Limited at Auckland station this morning, carrying his precious violin. He arrived in Wellington by the Tahiti, with his wife and their small daughter June. The party vas met at the station today by Mr. Thomas A. O’Brien. Miss Dulcie O’Brien, Mr. W. T. Leighton, Mr. A. L. O’Brien and Mr. S. Rodgers, and later Mr. Henkle was shown over the new theatre, now nearing completion on the Civic Square. This is Mr. Henkle’s first visit to the Dominion, although he is known to radio listeners from frequent broadcasts of his orchetsra from the Capitol Theatre, Sydney. He will be associated here with Mr. Fred Scholl, at the Wuriitzer organ, who was also on the air frequently from the same theatre. That the right type of music adds immeasurably to any motion picture is the view taken by Mr. Henkle, who states that his orchestra of 30 players at the Civic Theatre Will feature only the best in any class of music. Fundamentally, he says, music is motion, and ( must interpret in its shades of expression the movement on the screen. Mr. Henkle will assemble his orches- ; tra shortly for its first rehearsal in I preparation for the opening night next • month.