CHAUTAUQUA

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1920, Page 1

CHAUTAUQUA

One of the features of the Chautauqua entertainment on the three fars c ays the season at Hokitkika, is the I* no Four, who give an hour's entertainment It is, says a Wellington critic, Z Of the best male quartettes ever heard in Wellington. Not only do tl > secure a perfect blend, but no one voice is permitted to obtrude from the clioi -the true aim and end of all part smgin„. The Four are equally efiective in li "h t or sentimental songs. As a quartet they sang “The Mulligan Musketeers,” “Fishing” (comic), a harmonised version of “A Per ectDay, . “Soldier’s Farewell,” “Simple Simon “A Southern Lullaby,” and The lan - vard.”' The latter number gave mi Alan M’Elwain an opportunity to display his mimetic talent. Mr Arthur Ripley, the possessor of a sweet, «ellcontrolled lyric tenor, sang WJ tractivelv “The Garden of My Heart uid “Jean ” Mr Ryan, whose voice is better in combine than in solo * tane “Up From Somerset” and The Little Irish Girl,” and Mr M’Elwain withes bone-dry humour, convulsed the auch encc in “Evans’s Dog Hospita , Scene Shifter’s Version of Hamlet “Jim Bowker,” and other comic recitals. Mr M’Elwain is worth going a long wav to hear.