ALFRED O’SHEA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 584, 9 February 1929, Page 15

ALFRED O’SHEA

FINAL CONCERT THIS EVENING The final concert of Alfred O’Shea’s Auckland season will be given in the Town Hall this evening. This will be the last opportunitv Aucklanders will have of hearing this world-famous Irish tenor, who will leave immediately to fulfil a lengthy engagement in America. This evening Mr. O’Shea’s items will include "Che Gelida Manina” (The Poet's Song from “Boheme’*) (Puccini), “Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded” (Thomas Moore), “At Dawning” (Cadman), “Ave Maria” (with violin obbligato) (Kahn), “Drink to Mo Only With Thine Eyes” (Old English), “An Evening Song” (Blumenthal). Many requests for special songs and □ld favourites have been received by Mr. O’Shea, and he will endeavour to copo with them. Requests may be sent to either Lewis Eady, Ltd., or to the Town Hall. New musical items will be presented this evening by the three local artistes associated with Mr. O’Shea, Ina Bosworth (violiniste), Mavis Grevatt (harpiste), and Theo. Halpin (solo pianist© and accompanists). DOLORES HAS NEW ROLE WILD BEAR TAMER IN “REVENGE” Dolores Del Rio unfolds an entirely new characterisation in “Revenge.” In “Resurrection” we remember Miss

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of life, hit by ev defied happiness.

In “Revenge,” Dolores Del Rio is neither the Russian Katusha Maslova, nor is she the Indian Ramona. Truly she gives a completely new and interesting characterisation —one of high dramatic tension, filled with barbaric splendour, colourful, glamorous and romantic —as the fiery gipsy maiden whose chief joy in life is taming wild bears/