INTERHOUSE GIRLS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1940, Page 8

INTERHOUSE GIRLS

PERFORMANCE IN OPERA HOUSE : FINE SINGING BY CHOIR. LARGE AUDIENCE MOST APPRECIATIVE. There was a large attendance at the Opera House, Masterton. last night when the Wairarapa Interhouse Association presented an excellent concert in aid of patriotic funds. As a result of the effort the funds will benefit to a considerable extent. One of the outstanding items on the programme was the final tableau, showing the Union Jack and Britannia. The girls all wore smartly cut uniforms of red and blue with white blouses. The girls’ choir, under the baton of Mrs Miller Hope, was heard to advantage in several numbers, which were most popular with the audience. It was the first public appearance of the thoir, which acquitted itself with credit to all concerned. The programme was good throughout and showed evidence of the many arduous hours of training put in by the girls. Mrs E. J. Rich produced a splendid one-act play which bore her stamp of production. Miss Doreen Jamieson was very popular with her. audience, hei’ final item, “There will always be an England,” being received with considerable applause. At. a suitable interval the president of the Association, Mr L. B. Maunsell, spoke briefly and congratulated the girls on their fine effort. The Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, also offered his congratulations stating that the girls were going from one success to another. Mr Jordan thanked the public for supporting the concert, the proceeds of which would go to the local patriotic fund.

The chairman of the Association, Mr Geo. Daubney, offered his committee’s thanks to all who had made the function such a success, in particular Mesdames Miller Hope, E. J. Rich, J. R. Dickson (pianiste), Misses N. Thomson (of the Physical Welfare Department, Wellington) and E. Thompson (all of whom were presented with bouquets) and to Sergeant-Major C. E. Rogers, N.Z.P.S., Mr T. Handcock and assistants. The programme was as follows: “God Defend New Zealand;” “England” (unison); “Early One Morning, “John Peel” (English folk songs with descant), girls’ choir. Drill squad, under Gladys Bacon; Irish Jig, Ola Curry and Nora McMullan. English folk dances: (a) “Helston Flurry;” (b) “Galopede;” (c) “Mage on a Cree.” Vocal duet in character: Mona and Irene Fulton. Gipsy scene and ballet, girls’ choir, soloists, Laurel Bishop, Daphne Pulford, Sylvia Dunbar, Mary Hamill. Elizabeth Thomas. Pianoforte duet. Mesdames Miller Hope and J. R. Dickson, L.T.C.L. Part songs, (a) “Tales from the Vienna Woods;” (b) “The Blue Danube” (Strauss); girls' choir. Scottish folk dances (a) “The Dashing White Sergeant;” (b) “The Triumph;” choir girls, military burlesque. “Daily Dozens, interhouse girls, one-act play, “Little Glass Houses” (by Phillip Johnson and Howard Aggl, produced by Mrs E. J. Rich and Miss P. Cretney. Cast: Misses N. Snowsill, N. Wilson, J. Taylforth, P. Waters and S. Kennedy. Vocal solos, Miss Doreen Jamieson; marching and ballet, with concluding tableau “Britannia,’' choir girls; National Anthem.