SCOTS COLLEGE CONCERT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 72, 18 December 1920, Page 17

SCOTS COLLEGE CONCERT

"PYGMALION: AND GALATEA" BY ' •' ■ BOYS. 1 }' !

-'•'•Tie acfiiiil' "breaking-iip" ceremony in.with...Scots .'-College- does -not take place-.until. Monday; but last evening the boys of the college-' gave an en-: •■tertamment'of Unusual'merit in the Concert Chamber. Tho first part' consisted: of a miscellaneous' concert! ' programme.' If oommenced. with. ,the singing of the old college; "Ga'udeamiiis" (iii Latin) that Colleglsn remembers. :ltast,:W*. ' Kriosr and,, D. Wilson coiitrib- ' uted,. pianoforte: solos in a that promised, well. for their • musical future, e? , col ' e S® produced a; brass band,- tioo, which played .a couplo of Simple marches P" under ''tho'-batoil Of Mr. Thomson. Master If. Bridge'sang' „s<s Devon"' and • "All Through tlie "4K?I i= an i ■ snllg ' i .Still i'As_ the -.Niß.ht. r I/igliter ,relief' frpm ,5Tv Jloses, whoso comic •ditty-found' much favour, "Four Jolly Sailormeil"..- was .sung, .in oilsldns arid sou-westers by Masters -1. Webster, D. Hector, . : arid! ®, Smith, "vi s -j -j ' s MS-i- ant l ■chorns '.relating. the life-and-'death" experience of -'a,, wayward lobster was: very humorously sung by a' dozen well-trained -lads.."' A display; of ■Physical -drill showed the -class of exer•ciso tho -boys' are given 1 n;l the college. Perhaps, the most spirited and popular ltcm..jvas..the singing (in costume) of a Maori fishing, :song r by Henry' Potatau, who, m responding to' clamoroui applause, declaimed <with .vivid ferocity the 'IComato"' challenge of- his fore-, bears.

The speoial .effoi't-'of-tlio'evening Jynvever, was scenes. fiom,:W.. S. Gilberts humorous' classic "Pygmalion and Galatea, by boy«, who take the. elocutionary course supervised by Mis? Helen Gardner. • ,-The . scenes .selected - were those in which Pygmalion, v .the-Athenian Sculptor, is*, shown hnppy .in the love and veneration of Cynisca,?but depressed that', his art falls short of ilho pqwer given' to the gods. ,He .prays, that, his statue of Galatea may be endowed with life.-and, verity, ,it comes to-ipass, with disquiotang results, for I '' Cynisca will brook' no rivar in her sphere,' riot even an animated and, beautiful statue. ■ The old comedy came, .back a?' fresh. as' the dawn wind, and .its humour is-still unemirched by the .hand-of time. The boys were admirable in their work, particularly Muster R. Didsbury as Galateri. whose, chnrm of voice and mnnner were irresistible.' ' Master I. Macartiliur ■wns also'gentle and appealing a's Cynisca. Master-A;'L. Hurley made a manly and ■forceful Pygmalion, 'and Master Simester ii comical Chj-sos. Others in the east, were Masters' ■'•T, Pearson (a very, baritone' Daphne),N._Ross (a .pleasing' Myrine), J. Young/a picturesque Mimos), K. Tnrdie (a haughty Agesimoa), and GFaulkner (a gallant Leucippus); The entertainment closed 'with the school •ong.

• Messrs.- Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palliierston North,- report-holding their first shcopskin sale since tho commandeer, on December 9.- There was practically 116 change in the prices from those 'obtained in other centres whero sales'have .been held.'" There was a very considerable drop in tl).e prices of hides and calfskins, most, lines being passed in, inferior and damaged lots being most difficult to dispose of at any figure. . Quotations Sheepskins,.dry:'.Pine crossbred, 5-Jd. to 6Jd-,i medium to coarse do., 3Jd. to 5d.; short to half-wools, 2d. to 4d.; lambs; Bid. to sd.;'deau and'damaged,'ljd."'.to lu.i inferior and tfamaged, lid. to 3d.: pelts, good, 2d. to 3,id. j pelts, rough and inferior, no bid; saTtcd crossbred, 2a.. Gd. to 65.. 6d. each; 6alted pelts. Is. Id. to 2s. 6d. each; salted lambs, Is. to 2s. 3d. onoh. Hides: IToavy to medium, ox, V'd. W OJd. | light ox, 53d. to 7d.; lieuvy to medium cows, 53d. to GJd.; light cows, 6W.. to 7d.; damaged and inferior. Id. to ♦id.; yearlings, s!d. to Bd.; best oalf, lOd. to 12Jd.; good calf, 8(1. to lOid.; domaged and inferior, 2d. to. 7d. Tallow, in tins, 80s. Od.' to 2Js. -per cwt.