ALEXANDER WATSON
COMING TO AUCKLAND Mr. Alexander Watson, the wellknown English entertainer, who is making a return visit under the direction of Mr. E. J. Gravestock, after a most successful series of elocutionary recitals in Australia, opens his Auckland season on Saturday night in the Town Hall Concert Chamber. His first programme will include selections from Sir J. M. Barrie’s famous story “The Little Minister,” with all its dry humour, its strange but masterful characterisation, and its powerful dramatic force; also works by John Masefield and A. A. Milne. Mr. Watson is said to be England’s foremost elocutionist. “And yet,” said an Australian paper, “there is no accent, from the so-called Oxford draw'll, and its total and horrible mispronunciation of the English language, to the Cockney twang, which he is not able to express with perfect accuracy and apparent facility. He keeps the house tense with interest, he makes it laugh uproariously, but. at no time does he lose complete mastery of his audience. Special attention is called to the box plan arrangements in our advertising columns.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 160, 27 September 1927, Page 15
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