ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 86, 2 October 1911, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

\ FRANK H-UTCIIJiX.S—A tai; \\- \KI \ RUBIXSTFJX. Whilst the Xew Zealand public in general have felt proud 0 f the achievements of Frank Hutchens, the people of laranaki must have felt doubly so seeing that he came from their midst' Although he exhibited abnormal musical gifts at a tender age, his parents wisely refused to exploit the boy at the expense of his general health and education, and the results have justified this course. Frank Hutchens comes before the public now as a finished artist, bearing the hall-mark of academical distinction and concert success in London, the worlds musical metropolis. His great genius has been well directed, and the great conception revealed in his playing is the result of his natural gifts develop ed by education and experience. Nature has been generous to the Hutchens family, for she has given to Mr. Hutchens' brother a fine voice, combined with the faculty of using it artistically. As a boy Mr. Will Hutchens possessed a contralto voice, which, according to critics, would have taken him tothe Chapel Royal had he .been in England. The alto has now become ,a tenor, but the rich quality and artistic, styje is better tran ever. Another young, New Zealande, Miss Carter (mezzo Soprano) will contribute items to, the 'programme, which should attract a record house at the Theatre Royal to-nigfyt,