BAND CAROL CONCERT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 17

BAND CAROL CONCERT

The 16th concert of the season by the Municipal Band in the Town Hall will be given this evening, and will take the form of a carol conce-t. Several of the old-fashioned Christmas carols will be included in the fine programme to be presented, Chprafists. band and bells will combine m a charming manner. Many fine numbers will be played by the band, ineluding the popular overtures Poet and Peasant” and Art illiam Tell. Hal C. McLennan will contribute the flute solo, “La Sirene,” and Mr. J. Davies Will play the brilliant concert polka “Cleopatra.” and Mr. Roidand Ta-kson will manipulate the xylophone in Greenwood’s lively “Tarantelle. The vocalists, the Minstrel Singers, besides taking part in the; carols will contribute a quartet. An Evening Pastorale,” and solos will be sung by Miss Gladys Hoskins and Mr A. L. Macplierson, with Miss Thelma at the piano. The programme will conclude with a performance by the band of the "Hallelujah”’ chorus from Handel’s “Messiah.”

A prehensile-tail monkey, named “Pipo.” has joined the U.F.A. Educational Department at Xeubabelsber, as an animal character star. As soon as ho has become accustomed to his new surroundings at the U.f-A. i!oo, he will bo called upon to act for two new educationals, “Our Four-legged Relatives and “Animal Mimic,” which will be released by Cinema Art lilms.

It has now been definitely decided that the title of British International’s “The Hate Ship” is to be “The Melody of Fate,” and the film, which is now being cut and assembled, will soon be ready for presentation. Captain Norman Walker, responsible for “Tommy Atkins,” will direct this alltalkie British International picture.