ALEXANDER WATSON

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 158, 24 September 1927, Page 14

ALEXANDER WATSON

SERIES OF RECITALS Mr. E. J. Graves'tock announces that he has arranged for Mr. Alexander Watson, the. famous English entertainer, to give a series of recitals at the Town Hall concert chamber, commencing on Saturday, October 1. All over the English-speaking world Mr. Watson’s work has a multitude of admirers, for there is probably no reciter before the public who has travelled so extensively and so successfully as Mr. Watson has done in the pursuit of his art. For many years large audiences throughout England, Australia, and New Zealand, including the members of lecture societies and literary institutes, and boys and girls in our public schools, have keenly enjoyed his discerning interpretations of great literature—selections made with that fine feeling he possesses for what is best and most appropriate for verbal presentations. The remarkable power which he has, in such supreme degree, of vividly reproducing in the minds of his hearers, without the slightest adventitious aid whatsoever, the scene and characters in a story, poem, or humorous episode, gives his work an unrivalled distinction. His easy, sympathetic versatility and tuneful flexible voice enable him to employ his power with equal facility whether the author he is interpreting is Shakespeare, Dickens, Barrie, Kipling, Masefield, or Jacobs, or the hundreds of others included in his varied and unusual repertoire. The first recital, on Saturday next, will include Sir J. M. Barrie’s delightful story, “The Little Minister.” Monday will be a Dicken’s night, “Dr. Marigold’s Prescription,” and Tuesday will be a grand Kipling night. There will be a change of programme each evening. The box plans open on Tuesday next. Students’ concessions are available.