MARIST BROTHERS' SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11729, 2 December 1905, Page 7

MARIST BROTHERS' SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT.

The entertainment by the pupils of the Marist Brothers' School, to bo held in the Opera House on Thursday, December 7, promises to be full of interest. There is some really good talent among the boys, and their choruses and songs are sung with a taste and correctness which speak well for tho ability of their teachers. Interspersed in the programme will be three very pretty tableaux, and tho accompanying sonjys, "God Defend New Zealand," "Let Erin Remember," and "Slumber Gentle Infant," will be gung by the pupils. The fact that every performer is a bona fide pupil of the school will lend additional interest to the entertainment. The Brothers have spared no pains in preparing the boys for their different items, and we feel sure their efforts will be crowned with success.

,VESTMERE SCHOOL ENTERTAINMiiirr.

A most successful concert waa given id the Westmere Hall last evening in aid >f the Westmere School and prize funds. The building was crowded, and the programme delivered, which was a lengthy me, was splendid, a large number of tin items being encored. Mr E. Tingey. thairman of the School Committee, pre;ided, and after the programme was coniluded, thankod all those who had as iisted in making the entertainment the ;uccess it was. Te items delivered dj the children of the school did groat credit 'o their instructors, Messrs O'Reilly and tlolland, teachers of the school. The programme delivered consisted of an over.ure by Mr Holland, songs by Miss Kiel} md Messrs Penhall (2), Craig (2), Bailej 2), Lyall (2). Duets were rendered 'uj Messrs O'Reilly and Holland, the Ranfurly Choristers, and two children. Mi .iwan contributed two recitations* and Miss Clar'-ic Tingey and Mr O 'Donald also •ecited. "'wo of the scholars rendered aD ipening speech, and the children also gave Mie choruses. "The Voice of the Watchman," "Soldiers in the Park," and "Juanta-' A number of boys sang a chorus "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground." a jlub drill was prettily executed by the girls, and an action song by the boys was well done, whilst the vcutriloqin'stic marionette show was successfully perform3d by the boys.