An Enjoyable Recital.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 19 April 1930, Page 6

An Enjoyable Recital.

BY MR A. STANLEY WARWICK. AN ELOCUTIONARY TREAT. At the Masonic Hall, on Wednes-, day evening Mr A. Stanley Warwick, of Napier, presented a most enjoyable, humorous and dramatic recital. Although Mr Warwick is well-known in this town and district, on account of his recent excellent production of “The Man from Toronto,’’ it was the first time that he had been heard in sole work. Though the audience was not as numerically strong as it might 'have been, it was a most appreciative one. Mr Warwick’s rendering of the humorous and dramatic items, and the musical monologues, v r on him well-merited applause. All through, the programme was most entertaining and pleasing, and so well did Mr Warwick present each number, that it is a difficult task to particularise on any single item. Each was rendered with an equal depth and feeling, with appropriate gesture and facial expression, and the manner in which the elocutionist changed swiftly from drama, to blithe humour was amazing, and demonstrated that he was very proficient in his work.

Associated with Mi’ Warwick, were Miss Lily Welsh, L.A.8., who carried out her duties as accompaniste, with true sympathetic feeling, and Mr W. Matthews, violinist, who by his appealing rendering of the “Meditation’’ from “Thais,’’ (Massenet), and ‘O Star of Eve,’’ (Wagner) drew insistant and clamorous applause, so that as encore numbers he played “Barcarolle” from “Oberon,” (Weber), and “Intermezzo" (Mascagni), The programme was as follows: — Dramatic, “The Grave of a Hundred Head” (Kipling); “My Friends,” t .service); “Como” (Joaquin Miller); “The Erl King’s Daughter,” (Mangan). Humour, “The Longshoreman” “The Selfishness of Travellers” (Caine); “Mr Tigg Meets Mr Pinch” (Dickens); “Sad Story of a Motor Fan” (“Mr Pinch”); “A Lament” (Gordon) ; “The Best of Wives" (Anon). Monologues, “Not Old." “Bredon Hill"; “Things that isn’t True," and “The Selfish Giant.”