HAWERA MALE CHOIR

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1929, Page 6

HAWERA MALE CHOIR

A PLEASING PROGRAMME. The programme, submitted at the Hawera Male Choir’s concert at Hawera on Tuesday evening was of a high order throughout, carried out thoroughly and pleasingly by choir and soloists alike. Miss Joan Lowry and Mr. Alan McElwain more than justified the good things said about them, and each time they appeared had to respond with encore numbers, whilst Miss Lowry received several beautiful bouquets. The choir gave excellent renderings of its numbers, the combined efforts of men and boys being particularly pleasing. The quartette work of' Messrs. J. C. Smith, H. E. Morris, B. Malone and G. H. Buckeridgc deserves special niention. The combined efforts of these singers are becoming well and favourably known in Taranaki.. The programme opened with the rollicking "Rolling Down to Rio,” sung with a fervour suitable to the number. This was followed by Edward German’s “Sleeping,” most artistically rendered, calling for an encore, “0, the Noble Duke of York.” At-the . choir’s next appearances they gave f'The Minstrel Boy,” “The Tide Rises” and "The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond.” Mr. A. E. Morris did thorough justice to .the solowork. “Eldorado” was .splendidly rendered, “Comrades in Arms” being also well treated as a request encore. The combined choirs gave first “The “Carnovale” and in conclusion, “Land of Hope and Glory,”- the voices blending Well throughout. . The conductor, Mr. Herbert Webb, is to be congratulated upon,the success of the concert, the manner in which the work was carried .out bearing ample testimony to his thorough tuition. Miss Joan Lowry’s beautiful soprano voice was heard to advantage first in “Nightingale of June,” followed by “The Night Wind”: and “Songs my Mother Taught Me.” At her second appearance she gave "Magdalen at Michael’s Gate,” and as encores “When Love is Kind” and “Have You Seen but a White Lily Grow?” Most of her songs gave her opportunities of using the pure notes of her higher register,' and were sung with a delightful sweetness of voice and manner. Mr, Alan McElwain kept the audience seething with amusement whenever he appeared. His first programme number was “Perlmutter,” in which he gave an excellent imitation of a Jewish political speech. As encores he gave “The Major” and “The Champagne Bottles,” in which his imitation of an inebriated Irish woman converting champagne bottles into jam jars brought forth peals of laughter. At his second appearance Mr. McElwain gave a musical sketch, “All About Love.” His three encores, “The J.P.,” “Levinsky at a Wedding,” and “The Rights of a Pedestrian” also showed him to be a humorist and entertainer of a very high order. The quartette’s first number was "In a Gondola,” in which Air. Malone took the solo part. There followed “The Wood. Chuck.” At the second appearance the party gave “O, Sorrow Not,” and “Little Tommy Went a Fishing.”

LAWN TENNIS MATCH. HAWERA TO MEET ELTHAM. A match will be played between teams representing the Hawera and Eltham Lawn Tennis Clubs to-morrow, the A teams playing at Eltham, and the B teams at Hawera. The Hawera A team will consist of: —Ladies: Misses Pease, Moginie, D. Hawken and £. Hawken and Mesdames Rudge and .Duncan. Men: Jones, McFarlane, McCarthy, Watson, Pease and Wiggins. The' Hawera B team is as follows: — Ladies: Misses Buist, Robertson, Rowans, Jail and S. Washer and Mrs. Gabites. Men: Ryan, Leece, Veale, Chisholm, Meyrick and Coleman. OPERA HOUSE “TALKIES,” HAWERA “THE COHENS AND KELLYS.” “The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City,” Universal’s latest picture revealing the adventures of the Cohen and Kelly families, and the first to be made as a part talking and synchronised picture, opened its first evening session to a packed Opera House at Hawera last evening. The comic arguments, family squabbles and all the other characteristics of the Cohen-Kelly comedy team seem to grow funnier with each picture, and provide patrons with an excellent evening’s amusement. The story opens with Cohen and Kelly in the bathing suit business in New York, but their line has become so old-fashioned that dealers will not buy from them. Pat and Rosie, their children, manage to get the fathers away on a selling trip. While they are gone the children bring the business up-to-date and arrange for a bathing girl contest at Atlantic City with £2OOO to be awarded the winner. Cohen and Kelly return ahead of time, and hardly recognise the place, the children have spent all the money except the £2OOO for the prize, which their secretary lias forgotten to put in the bank. Cohen takes this money from the safe and puts it in his pocket. He learns that Pat and Rosie have gone to Atlantic City, and thinking they have eloped, gets Mrs. Kelly, and follows. Kelly thinks Cohen has eloped with his wife, and wires the police to stop them, following with Mrs. Cohen. Both families are thrown into gaol. The supporting programme of talkies is of a particularly high standard. “Pot Pourri, No. 1” provides a varied range of sound reproduction, including the Flying Scotsman, tree-felling, community singing in Hyde Park, the tank corps in training, and the Brooklands motorracing track. A naval review showing the British Fleet at sea, a dancing medley by the Victoria Girls, and a comedy, “Mr. Smith Wakes Up,” are also included. The final screening takes place tonight, and intending patrons should book at Miss Blake’s. i