SOCIAL SIDELIGHTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 488, 23 March 1933, Page 7

SOCIAL SIDELIGHTS

St. Patrick's Night. A very pleasant finale to the Convent School's St. Patrick Day picnic was a dance held in the Majestic ballroom last Friday evening. Irish melodies were one of the outstanding features in the dance music and a rather novel and tentertaining idea was created by interspersing items in ; between the dances. Thcse who contributed to the pro- ; gramme were: — The Convent shool . Choir, Miss Grace Montgomery, Miss Peggy Thompson, Mr. Howard, Mr. F. Jones and Master Clem-Newmarch. Harvest Festival' Social. In order to sell the produce from the Harvest Festival, a very pleasant informal isocial evening was held in St. John's Presbyterian hall last Monday evening. Several items, together with novelty eompetitors, were included in ] the programme for the evening and! songs by Miss J. Wbrrall and a -violin solo by Miss Grace Comeron-Johnson were very much ap-preciated. Guide Rally. A Scout Guide rally representing companies from all the surrounding districts, including Rotorua, was held •at the Matamata Domain recently and to which the general public was cordially invited. Folk dancing, dramatic plays, and ambulance competitions were the main features of the rally and were witnessed with much interest by the onlookers. The same programme was repeated in the evening. Joan and Betty Rayrlor. Once more we hear of these two delightful girls who" charmed so many New Zealanders last year with their unique entertainments. The ' latest news is that they are in London and found their first Troubadour recital in England so successful that th'ey haVe takeh the Grafton Theatre for1 a fortnight. These young players are reviving more and more the wandering minstrelsy of the middle ages, ransacking the world' s folklore for songs and stories, finding their material now in some traditional ditty that h'as been handed down from generation to generation, now in a faded and forgotten broadcloth in the British museeum.