CONVENT CONCERT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2069, 18 December 1919, Page 2

CONVENT CONCERT.

“Bigger, brighter’ and heller! was (he verdict of (hose who attended the St. Mary's Convent School annual concert held in the Town Hall on Tuesday night. Despite the runnier attractions, the hall was tilled with an appreciative audience, and the performers acquitted themselves admirably, and those re-

sponsible for their training are deserving of great praise. r Jhe stage was tastefully decorated by the sisters, and a willing hand of helpers and the coloured lights were manipulated by Mr .MeKnight. Kittle Tat Hvnes’s recitation. “A Dirty Face/' fairly brought down the house, and was a splendid pertormanee for one of only tour summers. One little lot. Maggie Desmond, found the ordeal of facing siieh a largo audience a little too trying, and gamely tried to “see it thruugh,” The little “grandmothers” was perhaps the star item of the evening, the make-up and antics causing roars of laughter. Ibe “Cinderella” ; l n m was very good, the "Prince” and the "two sisters ’ and the dancing called forth loud applause. The pianoforte dust b\ Carla Knndqnist and Kitty Williams was a splendid interpretation. Space forbids a more lengthy report, but the promoters are to be eongratuInted upon a very successful concert. The Following is Ihe programme Kerlnre. “Marilana,” Miss Carla Knndqnist (encored); chorus, “Music mi the “Waves/' senior girls; “C ran dm other’s Song,” infant girls (encored); violin duel, “Dance of the Witches,” J-t violin Andrew Reed, 2nd Violin Seymor Small, accompanist Miss Kvans; (lower song, senior girls (marie very effective by coloured lights); trio, “Hunting March,” Vues Hasten, Maggie Hynes and Annie Daniell; “Sleepy Head,” infants (encored); “Sunbonnets,” senior girls; vocal duet, “I Heai'd a Voice," Miss Bryant and Miss Evans, accompanied by Miss Reeves. “Rohehud Drill,” junior girls (coloured lights); pianoforte duet, “Zampa,” Miss Carla Kundquist and Miss Kitty Williams (encored) ; Japanese fan song, junior girls (coloured lights) ; farce, “This House is Haunted,” Masters John Eder, Redwood Bo wo, and Eddie Eveleigh, (interval.) Orchestra (selected), Ist violins Andrew Reed, Seymour Small, Maggie Hynes, 2nd violins, Redwood Bowe and Gordon Perreau, mandolins Carla Lundquist and Ynes. Easton, banjos “Willie Hynes and Kitty Williams, accompanist Miss Evans. Operetta, “Little Cinderella”; Cinderella, Mavis Dunne; the sisters, Kitty “Williams and Ynes Easton; the prince, Willie Hynes; attendants, John Eder and Isaac Gupwell; Kate, Annie Gup:#di, Sam, Paul Lundquist; “Chubby,” Maggie Desmond; “PaUie,” Pat: Hynes; train-bearers, Maggie Desmond and Xgari Dunne; fairy godmother, Rita Dunne; maids, Marjorie Pettigrew, Lizzie Gupwell, and Moira Purcell; guests at Princess ball, Dorothy Desmond, May Wilson, Ivy Wilson, Francis Eder, Una Barrat, Mona Dunne, Edie Wright, Ali■son Campbell, Jim Purcell, Claude Eveleigh, Eddie Wright, Leslie Beveridge, Jackie Barrat.

The Sisters desire to thank all who assisted, and especially Mrs Powell and Mr McKnight.