ALEXANDER WATSON
A KIPLING NIGHT With the robust and stirring work of Kipling as his material, Alexander Watson entertained and impressed a large audience in the Concert Chamber again last evening. Mr. Watson, who apparently has great sympathy with Kipling, gave a memorable recital of many of the best known poems. “The English Flag,” with its intense expression of the imperialistic spirit, and “The Ballad of the Bolivor,” were numbers which obviously fired the reciter. “If” and “Gunga Din” were other popular numbers. From Kipling’s prose he chose “My Lord the Elephant,” a droll account of one of Frivate Terence Mulvaney’s adventures. The strongest number in the second part of the programme was “The Flight of Little Em’ly,” from David Copperfield. “The Two Captains” (A. H. Miles), two of Belloc’s Cautionary Tales and Milne’s “The King’s Breakfast,” completed the programme. This evening extracts from Sir James Barrie’s works will be the principal part of the recital, while other numbers will be from the writings of Crosbie Garstin, Tennyson J. Russell Lowell, and C. F. Adams.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 167, 5 October 1927, Page 15
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