AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 97, 2 August 1910, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

PIANO FUND CONCERT. Considering the worthy object for which the concert 'had been organised, and the excellent programme that the committee had succeeded in arranging, it was expected that the Theatre Royal would have been crowded to overflowing last night on the occasion of the concert in aid of the Old People's, Home Piano Fund. There was a good attendance, but it could not have been representative of the tickets sold, as numbers were sold previously by enthusiastic Boy iScouts, and others to sympathisers not only in the town but in the country and, of course, numbers of these were unable to he present. It is expected that when all the returns are in the sum of £25 will be netted, and this, with the Government subsidy of 24s in the £, should materially assist the committee in its desired object, viz., the purchase of a piano for the use of concert parties at the Old People's Home. A splendid programme was submitted to an appreciative audience, who were unstinted in their applause, encores being frequently demanded and willingly responded to. The following programme was rendered: Overture, "Stradella," New Plymouth Orchestral Union, under the 'baton of Mr. C. !H. Lawn. (The orchestra "also played a selection, "The Belle of New York," in the second part.) Double quartette, "Banish, 0 Maiden," by eight members of the Liedertafel, Messrs. Crawford, Hooker, Beale,' Johns, Sehnackenberg, Rudd, Hannah and Ambury, who gave, in response to an encore, "Two Roses"; song,, "When the Heart is Young," Miss Fenton (encore, "Two Grey Eyes"); recitation,<" Mrs. Dougan's Discovery," :Mr. F. J. Easther (encore, "How Bill Adams Won the Battle of Waterloo"); song, "Down the Vale," Miss Ford, who repeated the last verse as an encore; pianoforte duet, Misses Warren and M. Evans; song, "Young Tom O'Devon," Mr. Haslam (encore, "I Know a Lovely Garden"); song, "Because," Miss Clarice Buckman, who gave as an encore, "Wai-ata Poi," tout the audience would not be satisfied until she repeated the last verse; recitation, 'TJadybird's Race," Mrs. T. C. iSchnackenoerg (encore, "Aunt Matidla," one of the best items on the programme); song, "Roses," Miss Guildford, who, in response to an encore, repeated the last verse; duet, "The Moon hath Raised her Lamp Above," Messrs. R. C. Nixon and W.' P. Crawford (encored); solo (on one string fiddle),, "Daddy," Mrs 'H. Broolks (encored); song:, "Louisana Lou," Mr. Tom Woodard, and, as an encore, the last verse. The performance concluded .witfe the National (Anthem. The accompaniments were played by Misses Warren, Pike and E. Buckman, and Mr. Golding.