THE COMPETITIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20299, 8 May 1934, Page 4

THE COMPETITIONS.

Juvenile Entrants Give Good Performance. LARGE AUDIENCE DELIGHTED. There was a large audience at the Civic Theatre last evening when the Christchurch Competitions Society presented its second evening concert. work of the juveniles, especially in the junior choir contest, in which there were two entries, comprising the first at<-d item was the one-act play presented by the West End Players. In addition to the completed classes, the following sections were heard, and will be concluded after the remaining sections have appeared: Ballroom dancing. ballet, second section, and duet in ! character, under thirteen. Included in yesterday's preliminary classes was the first section of the Alice Gunner Memorial. an annual feature at the competitions, open to women residing in Canterbury. There are eighteen entries this year, oomprisand ‘five contrail os! Recalls will be announced after the own selection items have been sung. Results, with judges’ remarks, are .as follows: — PIANO SOLO. • Bight and under ten. "Just Around the Corner” (H. Maynthon-Power). Miss Isabel Mac Kay (Riccarton), 85 points •• 3 Miss Rae Wilson (Dromorc), S 4 Miss 1 Xgairc Gadd (St Albans), S 3 points 3 Very highly commended: Miss June Fransden (Christchurch). Highly commended- Misses Xoeline Gibbard (Christchurch), Faith Johytone (Binwood) Masters Graham Hampton (Riccarton) and Thomas Butler (Tlinaru). RECITATION. Boys, eight and under twelve “How * the Elephant Got His Trunk (Kipling). Eighteen entries. Master Bernard Larsen (Dunedin), 82 points Master Jack Robb (St Albans), 81 o Masters Dougins Kelly (Fendalton) and Ivan Stacey (Avonside), SO points (equal) •*.*. Highly commended: Masters Vivian Hansen (Grey mouth) Trevor OiWey (Christchurch) and Maxwell fonk (Spreydon). VOCAL SOLO. Soprano. Own Fifteen Miss Beryl Emmett (Shirley), V M . y , Heart Ever Faithful,” 86 points 1 Mrs Harold Cordery (St Albans), In g Mi Merle Pa rry"< Fed ait o n)‘' Th e Message and the Song, 82 points 3 Highlv commended: Misses Grace Torkington (Opawa), Jean Scott (Woolston) Lucy M’lntosh (Dunedin) and Marjorie Watt (Riccarton). OPERATIC DANCE. Under ten.* Forty-two entries. Miss Nona Hood (Wellington), 82 Ngaire Bynam (Lower Hutt), Miss^ShirVey 3 James ( Ashburton), 79 points • 6 Verv highly commended: Misses Valerie Fitzgerald (Wellington) and Beryl Richardson (Wellington). Uighb commended: Misses Norma Addis (Christchurch), Shirley Hewson (Beckenham), Bonnie Sanders (Waltham), Patricia Rhodes (Spreydon) and Joy Dean (New Brighton). RECITATION. Girls, fourteen and under sixteen. “The Little Serving Maid (Hilaire Belloc). Twelve entries. Miss Margaret M’Allister (Linwood), 85 points •••••••• 1 Miss Sylvia Sanders (Hokitika), 84 points . , 2 Miss Marion Quartermain (Riccarton), 82 points 3 Highly commended: Miss Eunice Fo wler'( Ch ri s tch urc h). BARITONE SOLO. Open class. ” Thine Is My Heart '’ (Schubert). Twenty entries. Mr Clive Hindle (Cashmere), 92 points . ; 1 Messrs Edward Hendy (Opawa) and Edmund Douds (Palmerston North). 90 points (equal) . ... Highly commended: Mr D. Wilson (Spreydon). RECITATION. Girls. eight and under ten. “ The Absent-minded Man ” (Natalie Joan). Eighteen entries. Miss Jessie Patterson (Greymouth). S 3 points 1 Miss Nona Hood (Wellington), 81 points ;••••• Misses Dorothy Congreve (Greymouth). Beryl M’Millan (Wellington) and Shirley Wilson (St Albans), 80 points (equal) J The three competitions placed third equal were originally very highly commended, and did not appear in the final.