CONDUCTING PHONOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 825, 27 September 1906, Page 6

CONDUCTING PHONOGRAPH ENTERTAINMENTS.

> The great variety of records available makea it easy for the owner of an Edison phonograph to get tip an entertainment phasing to any assembly of people, and an important feature to one wishing to make money out of such entertainments is the faot that tue same audience can be secured again and again by securing new programmes. In faot, it is easier to secure tbe attendance of people who have already heard a flrßt-class phonograph entertainment. It ia important to remember that variety is the spice of a musical entertainment. It should be made a rule not to repeat a selection, no mattbr how well it is liked. It is, however, a good plan to bave favourites called for as encores hear the end of the outeitaiumeut, Do not give two or three male quartettes or two or three band selections in succession. Alternate the humorous with the beautiful; follow a song i with a btirriug baud or orchestra selection or a xylophone solo. 'lhe interest and appreciation of the audience will be greatly increased ' by not knowing what is coming next. Special entertainments are alwrye j more attractive than general ones. With the large assortment of records j available, it is easy to make up a I Comic Opera Evenina, a Minstrel j Entertainment, a Home Vaudeville, ! etc. The gems—the things that uevergrow old—are always available, while every mouth new records are issued for thosß who want the "latest." Inspection is invited at Messrs T. Dw'yer and Co., : 'The Talkeries," Masterton.