OTAGO BOYS’ HIGH

Evening Star, Issue 23376, 20 September 1939, Page 4

OTAGO BOYS’ HIGH

SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL CONCEIT PHYSICAL DISPLAYS OUTSTANDINI An excellent audience and very good; fare made the Otago Boys’ High School concert, which was held last night in aid of the Red Cross funds, a most successful effort. The programme was a varied one, ranging from farce and dramatic work of a high order to the physical exercises of the boys. Of an exceptionally high standard was the horizontal and parallel bar work of the senior forms. A number of school songs was sung by the massed scholars, and, although they were unfamiliar to an older generation, the appreciation they were accorded was well earned. -A special choir was heard in two numbers, ‘Men of Harlech,’ with descant, and * Londondery Air,’ which proved the most popular of the musical offerings. On the physical training side the school was well represented.. Junior forms took part in a marching display, which, though overlong, illustrated the day-by-day work of the school. Physical exercises and club swinging made a strong appeal, but the highlight of this portion, or indeed of the whole programme, was the display involving the use of gymnasium apparatus. A number of complicated exercises on the vaulting borso and parallel bars drew: prolonged applause. _ Strikingly spectacular was the horizontal bar work, one part of which involved a very difficult and well executed fall which if was impossible not to appreciate. A one-act play in three scenes occupied the major portion of the second half of the programme. B. E. MThersou gave a convincing characterisation of a Roman general, and, in a later scene, J. C. Parr, J. K. Lamg, andG. A. Tait all acted their various parts in a finished manner. The minor parts, played by J. M. Crawford, J* M. Wilkinson, F. V. Doidge. and G. O. Millis, were well executed. Interludes were thoroughly amusing* ‘ Fred* and Maggie in 1951 ’ caught the imagination of the audiencej and indeed'it was a worthy effort in its conception as much as in its execution. No lees could be said for 1 The. Lone Ranger,' who was as convincing and highly entertaining. Mention must be made of the Seven Dwarfs, who contributed not a little to the success of the evening.