GUARDS BAND TOUR.
May Not Be a Financial Success. It is probable that the tour of New Zealand by the band of his Majesty’s Grenadier Guards, which will be concluded next week after visits to centres in the North Island, will not be a financial success. Mr Claude Kingston, who is managing the tour for J. and N. Tait, Ltd., said yesterday that there was a possibility that after the visits still to be paid to Napier. Gisborne, and Rotorua, the expenses of the tour might be very nearly met; but there was the risk of wet weather interfering with the open-air performances to be given in those places. Mr Kingston said that the attendance at the trotting grounds at Addington during the visit of the band to Christchurch was a record for the tour. Mr Kingston wished to make it clear, however, that any loss on the New Zealand tour would be accepted by his company as part of the inevitable risk attaching to tours of this nature. As a concert director, he had felt it a great privilege to have brought the band from London to New Zealand. Other Tours. Probably in June of this year the young violinist, Yehudi Menuhin, will visit New Zealand under the direction of J. and N. Ttit, Ltd.. Mr Kingston said that the company had been negotiating for five years for an Australian and New Zealand tour by the boy violinist, and three years ago the dates now arranged had been agreed to. The tour provided for only twenty concerts in Australia and New Zealand, and it was hoped that one concert could be given in each of the principal centres in New Zealand. The company had had to make a guarantee of £ooo for each concert given during the tour. Mr Kingston said that the next tour under the direction of his firm would be that of the company playing “ One Minute Alibi,” a three-act play which has had a successful season in London. The company will arrive in Wellington on next Saturday week, and will begin a tour of the South Island after the season in Wellington.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 2
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357GUARDS BAND TOUR. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 2
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