ALEXANDER WATSON
FINAL RECITAL TO-NIGHT Dickens’ people lined on the stage of the Town Hall concert chamber when Mr. Alexander Watson, the famous elocutionist, gave his second-to-last recital in Auckland. The programme had its foundation in the novelist, the two main pieces being “Marley’s Ghosti” from a “Christmas Carol,” and “Winkle’s Misadventure at Bath,” from Pickwick Papers. Both were admirably recited or rather dramatised. Other numbers included Tennyson’s “Charge of the Heavy Brigade,” and Kipling’s “Mulholland’s Contract” and “Boots,” and an “Irish Cricket Match ” There was a large attendance. This evening Mr. Watson will give his farewell programme to Auckland. The programme includes: “Hamlet and the Gravediggers” (Shakespeare). “Defence of Lucknow” (Tennyson), “At the Concert” (J. L. Gordon), “Mr. Winkle on the Ice” and “Mr. Pickwick in the Water” (Dickens), “Hunting for Ezra,’’ from Barrie’s “The Little Minister,” Kipling selection: “Recessional,” “Cold Iron,” “The Shut-eye Sentry,” “Fuzzy Wuzzy,” and second part of “My Lord the Elephant,” Mark Twain’s nightmare, “Punch. Brothers, Punch.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 170, 8 October 1927, Page 15
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