BAND CONCERT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 452, 6 September 1928, Page 15

BAND CONCERT

ENJOYABLE PROGRAMME There was more than an average attendance at the Town Hall last evening, when a very enjoyable concert was presented by the Auckland Muni* cipal Band, under the direction of Mr. Christopher Smith. A carefully selected programme included the following: March, “The Trossachs” (Fitz-Earle); the overture, “Maritana” (Wallace); the suite, “Venezia” (Nevin); “Slavonic Rhapsody” (Friedman); selection from “The Belle of New York” and popular foxtrot selecitons.

Miss Nellie Lingard, the popular contralto, sang very pleasingly “Still as the Night” (Bohm) and “1 Passed by Your Window” (Brahe). The cornet solo, “The Death of Nelson,” was well rendered by Mr. Fred Bowes, and also a pleasing piccolo solo. “Cassiopia” (Barsotti) by Mr. H. C. McLennan.

Metro -G oldwyn - Mayer announces that Eva Von Berne, the seventeen-year-old Viennese girl, who was “discovered” by Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer, will play the leading feminine role opposite John Gilbert in the latter’s new starring vehicle, “The Mask of the Devil,” a story with an Austrian background, now in production under Victor Seastrom’s direction.