CONDUCTING PHONOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8281, 7 November 1906, Page 7

CONDUCTING PHONOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENTS.

The great variety of Edison records available makes it easy for the owner of an Edison phonograph to get up an entertainment pleasing to any assembly of people, and an important feature to one wishing to make money out of such entertainments is the fact that the same audience can be ( secured again and again by arranging new programmes. In fact, it is easier to secure the attendance of people who have already heard a first-class phonograph entertainment. The phonograph is not surpassed as a means of entertainment for & church or charity sooial. The one in charge of an entertainment usually knows in advafloe the kind of audience be will have and should make ud his programme accordingly. It is important to remember that variety is the spioe of a musical entertainment. Make it a rule not to repeat a seleotion, no matter how well it is liked. It is, however, a good plan to have favourites called for as encores near the end of the entertainment. Do not give two or three male quartettes or two or three band selections in succession. Alternate the humorous with the beautiful; follow a song with a stirring band or orohestra selection or a xylophone solo. The interest and appreciation of the audienoe will be greatly increased by not knowing what is coming next. Do notj make the entertainment too long. End it a Utile too soon rather thaD prolong it unduly. If is olosed after a delightful hour or an hour and a " half, the people will be inre to want to come again. Speoial entertainments are always more attractive than general ones. With the large assortment of records available, it is easy to make up a Comic Opera Evening, a Minstrel Entertainment, a Home Vaudeville, etc. The gems—the tuings that never grow old—are always available, while every month new repords are issued for tboße who want the latest. An invitation is extended by Messrs T, Dwyer and Co., of "The Talkeries," (Mastwrton, Carterton, and Napier), to inspect iheir new stonk of records.