BOYS' INSTITUTE RECITAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 672, 24 November 1909, Page 9

BOYS' INSTITUTE RECITAL.

,: ' The Boys' Institute deserves' well of 'the''public,, for,,as .Mr. .Bush remarked'at the close of; tho benefit," elocutionary and musical, '■■ which - Was given iu .the concert room, Town Hall, last ovoning,-/tho '-institute, is doing its v'share.'in. holping-to-.mako the boys of tho city worthy aona.' of 'tho EmpiiOi One of<■ tho. institute's !b6st:,':fnends-;is Mr.: J. ,M. •-.Clark,' and -tho' recital. which ':ho and his friends gave 'last evening/is 'onp of tho many practical 'demon-strations'o-Miis rogard for its welfare..'lt was ,a.'very' good ;reci tal indeed, andvTory well. at tended. :.Mr/Clark.-was-assisted- by. Mrs. Martin, Williams/.Miss...Christina:-Picot, and Mr: B. .J.' Hill., "All four were in excellent form, .and aU'Were compollod to concede :encord num-,-bors.', Mrs.-.Williams's •; brogrammo: recitations were! ".The Art of; Making up Ono's Mind" (Jerome),:." The Story, of, the .Monk Felix"'. ,(1-ongfollbw), dud".The Negro Baby's Funeral" (Avon). Mrs. Williams'was particularly' entertaining' in-: tho. first of these, '.and equally so: in her ''encore number, wheroin she described :tho:eonver3ation ;of-a certain .well-known type' of ; sick:■': ..Miss- Christina Picot very charmingly; interpreted' Eugene' Field's quaint .littlo poems—"Tho Doll's Wooing," and ;"Wynken; Blynken,•'- and . Nod " j 'was' irresistably amusing in her recital of Owon Deed's sketch -"'Filling in tho Census Paper.'';':and aleo'took-- part-in-tho dramatic- scene from' Shakespeare's Richard lll—"The Wooing/ of lLady : Anno"—with Mr; 'J.: M. Clark, who' gave van :'admirable' study of the, " Crooked . Fiend " Who left d. stain on certain', pages of - English./history;•■.• Mr. Clark'--also 'recited ■"■Othollols". Apology'.' (Shakespeare),;' "Enoch 'of. Calaveras, (Bret Harte). -" Moii' Ami" (Weiithe'rley), and " Mrs. Hodgson's Funeral ''■ ■ (Barry-..Pain), his work in:all,.and,ih hisiori--'core numbers,\.was,:nlost-artistic.:.. Mr; E, J; /Hill/;/who/ waKdccoraparilcd by. A' .Kenny; : 3angyßartlett's v v;''-;A:i,Dream," ' ."-My Queen,";'".Bluinerithat'Vandvas-encoro numJEoL'.'.-.^