LIBRARY CONCERTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 16

LIBRARY CONCERTS

EPSOM The Epsom Library course of lectures and entertainments will commence on Tuesday, May 17. The season’s programme will comprise two concerts, one arranged by Mr. Barry Coney and the other by the city organist, Mr. J. Maughan Barnett. Lectures will be given by Mr. John Tait, assisted by his Madrigal Choir, on “English madrigals and part-songs”: Mr.. A. E. Ford, “Impressions of Three Continents”; Rev, Charles A. B. Watson, “Old Auckland”; and a debate will take place between teams, male and female, of the W.E.A. Tickets for the course may be had at all city libraries and Queen Street bookshops. The Grafton Library course of lectures and entertainments will be inaugurated on Tuesday, May 10, with an entertainment tendered by the Amateur Operatic Society. A programme of surpassing variety will be presented in which the following artistes will take part; Misses Dorothea Taylor, Alma McGruer. Lynda Murphy, Beryl Poulton, Dorothy Richardson, Nellie Lingard, Ruth Scott, Doris Couston and Messrs. Ernest Snell, Arthur Prentice, Raymond Reeve, Tinker Jackson and Jean Delore. A playlet entitled “Out of the Ashes” will be interpreted by the following cast; Reira M. V. Perkins, Gwen Jones, Jack Mackel and Vyvyan Hunt. Tickets for the course are on sale at all city libraries and Queen Street bookshops.