DEAF DUMB AND BLIND.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 March 1901, Page 3

DEAF DUMB AND BLIND.

An entertainment given by persons whom nature hath not been over lavish, always commands sympathy. Here the largo audience in the Opera House last night was not a surprise. The entertainment opened with a composition for the piano very capably rendered by Mr Soloman, then followed soveral musical selections. Miss Weber of Greymouth in the absence of one of the blind singers, rendering "The Toilers" with marked feeling and expression. The recitation of Longfellows "Psalm of Life" by one who had baen deai from his birth, and who only learned to speak from his observant of lip and throat movement was most interesting. The recitation might be regarded as the individual effort, one mind unaided by intination or sound, which are unknown to him. The modulation was peculiar and at times weird, yet showing a good conception of the composition. But perhaps the best effort of the whole evening was tho action interpretation by a dumb momber of the company of the "Charge of the Light Brigide." The deaf member of tho company gave tho lino with a dumb member portrayed the story by action of ttio hands and body and truly a wonderful deloaniation of tho famous change it was. The audience knowing tho words without the action, and became at times electrified with the dumb patroyal.