SUNDAY SCHOOL CONCERT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3809, 16 September 1936, Page 4

SUNDAY SCHOOL CONCERT

LARGE AND APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE.

Elaborately produced and well presented, an enjoyable concert arranged by the pupils and teachers of St. John’s Sunday School, Te Awamutu, was held in the Parish Hall last Monciay evening. A large and varied programme of items was presented, and was well received by the large crowd present. All the items were presented in costume, and much credit is due to Mrs H. Steer for her work in produring the entertainment.

Feature items on the programme were a bracket of three song scenas based on the works of A. A. Milne, national dances, and a tap duo. The programme was as follows:

Instrumental selections, The Melody Four; choruses by the whole company; toe dance, Peggy Sager; sea chanties, R. Brain, M. Griffen, W. Griffen, G. Bridge, L. Bayley, and R. Bayley; sketch, Joy Lee and J. Oliphant; playette, J. Oliphant, M. Griffen, and Joy Lee; song and dance, the Bible Class girls; sketches from the works of A. A. Milne by (1) Joy Lee, J. Oliphant, H. Renton, P. Steer, and D. Steer; (2) Helen Lee, Don Oliphant, and Beryl Olsen; (3) Helen Lee and Ray Brain; sailor’s hornpipe, Elaine North; Highland fling, Diana Wall; Irish jig, Pat Bridge; drill exercises; character dance, Miss Munro; tap duo, Peggy Sager and Helen Lee; sketches by the Sunday School pupils.

At the conclusion of the programme presentations on behalf of the Sunday School pupils and teachers were made by Mr H. A. Swarbrick to the Rev. S. It and Mrs Wareing, who will leave shortly for England. Mr Wareing suitably replied on behalf of Mrs Wareing and himself. Mr Wareing’s gift was a pipe, silver mounted and engraved with his initials, and Mrs Wareing received a beautiful snake-skin hand-bag. Mr Wareing said he would keep the pipe to smoke in England, commencing from the day of his arrival there, and would thus have a constant reminder of very pleasant associations with the scholars and teachers of St. John’s Sunday School. The accompaniments and incidental music for the concert were played ably by Miss L. North, and Mr H. Spence manipulated the special lighting effects.

The concert was indeed a splendid one, and all the performers gave excellent exhibitions. It would be invidious to differentiate, but from the applause in the hall and comments afterwards it would appear that opinions differed widely as to just which item was the best of a very fine and well-varied programme.