JUBILEE SINGERS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4799, 16 January 1925, Page 2

JUBILEE SINGERS.

BUCKNER’S DIXIE TROUPE. APPEARANCE AT PAEROA. 'mere .was only a fair attendance of the public at the Gaiety Theatre, Paeroa, on Wednesday night to hear the Drxie Jubilee Singers. The entertainment on the whole was pleasing, especially in the choruses and quartettes, the harmony and perfect blending of the voices leaving little to be desired. The solos by Osceola Coma, lyric tenor, were particularly fine, while Miss Smallwood, contralto, delighted the audience with her voibe. Madame Neal Buckner, soprano, was rather 5 dis.appointnig in the solos, but her voice was heard to advantage in the items rendered by the whole company. W. C. Buckner, basso, was pleasing in his rendering of “Old Black Joe” and M Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep,” while his recitation of the poem by Dunbar, “Lesson of the Watermill,” from an elocution viewpoint was particularly well rendered. L. A. Morris, the lightning cartoonist and monologuist, proved himself to be an artist of no mean ability, and his quaint patter greatly amused. The programme was varied with popular old Southern songs, duets, trios, and quartettes, and the various ilemswera entirely free of vulgarity. The singers were most gracious', and never refused an. encore, of which there were many.