ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 215, 11 March 1914, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

QFUEX OF TilK t'AKNIVAL Interest locally is centred at the pn>"lit time on wlio will lie candidates foi the original idea, as far as New PI;, niuuth is concerned, in a popular voting contest for a qucea and her ladies in waiting. Professor Owen Cardston. who is at present ill New Plymouth, has i:iil a wide experience in. such mailers. Mid predicts great success for our first voting contest.. At present in Wanga.rii interest is at fever heat in the elcc.on of the queen, the result of which ill be known to-day (Wednesday), A political election is nothing to it. Every • veniug committees for the dilTeren; candidates are out after votes, giving open-air entertainments and eatelling coins of the realm in all manner of ways, the proceeds going to secure the return of their respective candida;is. To illustrate ho'.v serin"-'v it has laken hold of the coimminit'" : n our sister Knvn, one party is prcpned In spend C'iiUl to further the reler.i hi its cuni'iilr.o. One of Use piiituiv theatres gave oue evening's takings •» another e-^udit!e. 'i'he (iarrison Band gave a -acred concert to further the prospects id' their candidate, and so on. (•'peaking to a returned representative oi' the Kugby football team which toured California, Professor Cardston learned that there the idea is carried out royallv. Every citizen takes part, and for nights the revels last. Everybody carries confetti, and all enter into the spirit of carnival time. ' The committee hope to confer the freedom of the town upon the queen as soon as she is crowned. Several knighthoods will be conferred on our prominent citizens; in fact, the desire is to have a mutual social day for all our townspeople. It behoves the citizens to take the matter up. not only for the pleasure derived from the same, but also as an advertisement, for the town. Already several entries 1 have been received, and by closing day il is hoped many more will be received. PAUL OUFAI'I/r TO-MOP,HOW. A great charm of a Paul Dufault concert is that one is able to understand every word of the great tenor's English songs, and the majority of his songs are in the mother longue, for perfection falters abashed before the enunciation of Paul Dufault. You are always sine when he sings that you will get every word that the writer of the song wrote, as well as every note that the composer intended you to get. if all singers would endeavor to emulate Mr. Dufault and to realise that the audience would like a chance to catch the words of the song and thereby tile meaning, how much more popular coucerl-going would become. Although Paid Dufault is of French descent, he is a lirm believer in English song for English-speaking people. Naturally the great tenor has a partiality for French songs, and admits that he believes that the French composers excel all others in the production of love lyrics, and for liiui French is tlie language of Nature. Mr. Dufnult's concert here to-morrow night, will lie absolutely his final appearance in New Plymouth. Anyone who has not yet heard the great French-Canadian should not fail to take advantage of the opportunity afforded bv his return concert, for it will undoubtedly be long before we hear his like again. The box plan is at Collier's.