FINE PERFORMANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1943, Page 2

FINE PERFORMANCE

CHORAL AND DRAMATIC PRESENTATION. AT WAIRARAPA COLLEGE. There was a large and appreciative audience at the Wairarapa College Assembly Hall on Saturday night, when the College presented a choral and dramatic programme which was delightful and well-balanced, and was much appreciated by the audience. The lighting and scenery were particularly effective. In the singing especially a high standard was set. The following was the programme: — Broadcast of classical favourites by the boys’ choir: Sopranos: I. Allsworth, R. Camden, D. Clark, H. Daken, D. Davey, N. Gilbert, I. Haxton, E. Petersen, G. Rigg, P. Robbins, B. O’Hara Smith. Tenors: D. Finlayson, R. Jones, K. Knowles, W. Rogers, S. Wesney.XW M. Eccles, V. Burling. Ist basses: J. Al Rayne, I. Perrin, B. J. Clark, R. A. Esler, A. D. McGregor, R. J. Loader. 2nd basses: F. S. Rigg, I. J. Nicol, N. W. Gill, J. P. Gooder, H. C. French. “A Night of the Trojan War.”—Pronax and Salvius, P. Downes and G. Jaine; Ilus and Capys, R. Richardson and G. Jones; a Greek sentinel, I. Graham. Girls’ Choir—Songs of the Out-of-doors, Songs of European Peoples, and Slumber Songs. Members of choir: Shirley Watson, Esme Dunbar, Edna Davis, Gwenyth Morice, Margaret Blatchford, Jean McDonald, Audrey Graham, Margaret McCalmont, Jean Burling, Erica Deller, Mary Stewart, Betty Dagg, Rona McGovern, Dorothy MacDonald, Betty Miller, Edna Burling, Jean Crp'sbie, Pam Rogers, Alison Kennedy, May Wellington, Joleen Stewart, Ngaire Orsborne, Pat Clark, June Clark, Shirley Walsh, Barbara Thorburn, Eileen Johns, Nargaret Nillward, Audrey Macdonald, Barbara Allan, Royce Drysdale, Wilma Kerr, Betty Purcell, Margaret Prout, Vivienne Day, Ngaire Mills, Ailsa Harris, Barbara Spicer, Muriel Drew, Marion Evans, Norma Wright, Nola Stewart, Patrica Barr, Noelene Spackman, Elizabeth Dunbar, Helen McGregor, Leslie Schofield, Nita Hearle, Wynneth Bateup, Lorraine Baldwin. Duet: Esme Dunbar and Shirley Watson. “Hullabaloo” (comedy).—Janet Colyngham (Dorothy Heckler), Melanie Colyngham (Mary Shouler), Lady Headland (Brenda Jaine), Mrs Gosling (Enid Cross), Iris (Joan Wilson), Ivy (Audrey Wydrot), Ella (Dawn Couper). The make-up artist was Mr Fred L. Price, and stage management, lighting, scenery, property and effects were in the hands of members of the College staff.