SCHOOL CONCERT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4739, 18 August 1924, Page 2

SCHOOL CONCERT.

LOCAL SCHOLARS' EFFORTS, A VERY CREDITABLE SHOWING. "I wish I’d known about these concerts before. I didn’t realise what 1 was miissing.” So spoke one evidently enthusiastic member of the audience after the school concert on Friday last. Possibly the school has been too modest in its advertisement —has been hiding its light under a bushel. Some of the audiejnee seemed to think so. These concerts have been given.at frequent intervals recently by various classes of the Paeroa. District High School to pay for the newly acquired school gramophone. Friday's concert was given by Standards IV. and VI.. and the Junior High School. Perhaps the most pleasing feature of the programme was its great variety : songs, piano solos, recitations (both sentimental and humorous), sketches, dialogues and burlesques—all these were included, so that the audience was kept keenly interested from beginning to end. The programme was opened by the Junior High School Jazz Orchestra. They left the audience in a very happy mood for the next item, a recitation to music by M. Buchanan, charmingly done. Then followed a dialogue by S. Mclntyre and M. Taylor which caused a good deal of laughter. Further recitations were given by C. Silcock, E. Verran, and Z. Parkinson. A Bridge’s dialect recitation, "Der Shoemaker's Poy’,’ was well received, as was also “A Midnight Feast,” by a Mosquito. The mosquito was B. Bramley. D. Towers recited “Children's Parties” particularly well. Songs were given by both Standards IV. and VI. B. Butler sang “A Little Coon’s Prayer,” and L. Jenkinson also sang a song very prettily. S. Morgan gave a piano solo, a Polish dance, which brought loud applause. “The Three Mosquitoes: A Thrilling Movie Drama,” by Standard VI., caused no end of merriment. We heartily' approve of the way in which the three mosquitoes were kept on the chain. Maj' they never get loose ' Standard IV. boys gave a nigger minstrel burlesque which set .the younger ones all agog. The revised version of “Doodah Day” was just the thing : “We’ll get enough money to buy de gramophone, O. Doodah Day !” Ami they did. The gramophone is now fully paid for. Tn fact, a surplus remains with ,which morb records can be bought. Thfe enjoyable entertainment ended witfl further selections by the Jazz Orchestra, and, finally, “God Save the King.” The orchestra is to bte complimented on its performance. We would like to see an extension of its activities.