BRIGHT CONCERT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1938, Page 8

BRIGHT CONCERT

ENTERTAINMENT AT SOLWAY COLLEGE. KNOX CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL FUNDS BENEFIT. An excellent concert was presented last night in the college hall by the girls of Solway College, in aid of the Knox Church Sunday School funds. As a result of the entertainment a sum of about £25 was raised. The opening item was most effective. Eight girls took part in a rainbow ballet, all being dressed in the colours of the rainbow while similar tonings provided the stage settings. A chorus “Riding on a Rainbow” and a solo tap dance by Betty Bishop were also included in this number. A recitation, “Singing Lizzie,” by Shirley Jones, and a piano solo, “Marionette” by Joyce Eyre, followed. “A Little Bit of Ireland,” an Irish dance in which five girls took part dressed in white, with green and gold capes, was a vigorous and bright item. A play, “X Equals O,” by John Drinkwater, a tragedy pointing out the futility of war, was enacted by the following: — Greek soldiers, Maire Prebble and Mary Spiers; Trojans, Millicent Ince and Etta Littlejohn; sentinel, Doreen Hughes; servant, Ngaere Lawrence. Then followed a recitation, an extract from the “School for Scandal,” by Beryl Crystall; a tap ballet by four girls in green military suits with silver braids; two songs by the choir, the opening chorus of “lolanthe,” and “Songs My Mother Taught Me”; a recitation by Mary Spiers; a hula by three girls from Suva,. Margaret Park, Rose Allen and Beth Dunstan, this item being given effectively in an island setting and including national songs and dances; a Hungarian ballet in bright costumes; and a farce “Come Along Death,” this being a sketch on the manner of writing Shakespearean tragedies. Those taking part were: Ludovic (a famous film star), Margaret Nimmo; his secretary, Beryl Crystall; reporters, Flora Toffler and Moira Kells; spinster of uncertain age, Marjorie Dykes; Babs, Joyce Hammond; Maurice, Nance Cutler. The concluding items were a ’cello solo by Patricia Blamires and a combination of singing and dancing entitled “The Blue Danube,” which was a pretty and effective number.