MISS FAGAN'S MUSIC PUPILS.

New Zealand Tablet, 24 January 1918, Page 37

MISS FAGAN'S MUSIC PUPILS.

9 • The annual break-up concert of Miss Fagan’s music pupils was held in the Masonic Hall, Berhampore, on Thursday, ' December 20; before an appreciative audience of parents and friends. A varied musical programme was gone through, which reflected credit on teacher and pupils. Special mention should be madeof Miss Mollie Fisher (senior gold medallist, Trinity College, London), and Master Lennox McPhee (junior and intermediate gold medallist, Trinity College, London). The programme opened with a due\, played’ by Misses Madge Janson and Edna Emerson. Piano solos were rendered by the following : —Misses MollieFisher, Beatrice Emerson, Madge Janson, Eileen Gunipn, Ellie Stratford, Olive Goodall, j Doris Bamforth, and Edna Howe, Masters Lennox McPhee and Percy Bydder. Little Miss Doris Bamforth captured the audience with her playing of “Badinage,” and an encore was requested. A duet “Valse Brilliante” (Chopin) was played by Misses Madge Janson and Beatrice Emerson. Other duets were rendered by Masters Lennox McPhee and William Turvey, Misses Edna and Beatrice Emerson, Misses Eileen Gunion and Sybil Williamson, Misses Maud Meecham and Mary Priest, Master Colin and Miss Sybil Williamson, Misses Ellie Stratford and Ida Dorset, Misses Olive Goodall and Sybil Williamson. An Irish jig was prettily danced by Miss Olive Goodall: An extra attraction were the elocutionary items rendered by Mr. Kevin Dillon (champion gold medallist), ably supported by Mrs. Dillon at the piano. During the evening the pupils sold sweets among the audience, and the proceeds, together with those of the concert, are being devoted to comforts for wounded soldiers.

GUILDS

Next month (states a writer in the Catholic Herald of India of November 28) the Guild of Ransom holds its annual reunion, rather later than usual, and the < occasion* will be signalised by some public information about the new venture of a modern representative of the old Catholic Guilds. Father Fletcher, Master of the Guild of Ransom, who has a truly medieval spirit of piety, and is a convert of long standing, has endeavored oh more than one occasion to revive the idea of Guilds for the various professions and trades. In the case of civil servants he has succeeded admirably, the St. Martin's Society, now firmly established, embracing all branches of the civil service in "which Catholics are to. be found, although at the commencement it' was intended only for post office employees. . This society is now starting, hostels for young girls coming to London to take work under the Government. They will be run on economic lines and with a Catholic atmosphere, and '"heed is evidenced by the recent warnings issued by the clergy and others to girls in Ireland - about the gangerou s; •'; conditions of work in 'h 'England. Father Fletcher also hopes to revive another Guild, which he established 1... This ?is for journalists .and ■is under the. patronage of St. Dunstan arid St. Bride, because those two saints are so intimately connected with the Street of Ink, ; Fleet .Street,; their churches being the alpha and .; omega of that famous highway of the press. There are enough Catholic journalists in London to make this society an interesting-coterie: and to'ensure; its success.