IN THE FIRST SIX.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1700, 17 March 1913, Page 4

IN THE FIRST SIX.

NEW ZEALAND TENOR OPTIMISTIC, In tho courso of a private loiter to a Wellington friend, Mi-. Frank Foster, tlio tenor vocalist', Into of Dunediil and Christ oliurch, mul a frequent visitor to tho AVeU lington Savngo Club, writes from London: —"Personally I am doing, very well. I nm studying interpretation with Sir Henry Wood, who has engaged me to sing at some of liis Queen's Hall concerts. Sir Henry says.l luivo great chances in London, and that once 1 get known I shall bo easily in the'first six English tenors, Tho Savage Club has been very good to me, and have made 1110 an honorary iiieni-, her for tlireo months. I had lunch with! Frank Thornton' (the English comedian) the other day, and we hmi'quite a kurcrd over his many friends and experiences in New Zealand. Arthur llelmore, Joseph' Harkcr (who designed the "Kismet" scenery), Lynch (('lie wa.r correspondent who was shut up in Ladysmith, and who shared u house with Stecvcns, who died there), .Tack Hassall, Starr Wood, Almond (the three well-known artists), Maeklin, the soulptor, all good follows and hearty Bohemians,-aro among those I have lilet. Quite a oharact'er is 'Dick' Donovan, tho novelist, but most interesting of nil is old Odell, who was with Sir Squire Bancroft ill the old days, and of whom Charles BrooVfield wrote that, when thev founded, the Savage Club tliev found Oiloll (hero. Ho is a wouderfully-pvreivveil type of (ho old-style Thespian. _Byl.hu way, Arthur Ballanee is singing in |.li« chorus of 'Tho Girl in tho Taxi,' at the Lyric-."