MISS GWEN SHEPHERD'S CONCERT PARTY

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 20, 2 December 1927, Page 7

MISS GWEN SHEPHERD'S CONCERT PARTY

Miss Gwen Sheplerd’s concert party, whose last "At Home" at 2YA was gteatly appreciated by many delighted listeners, is to "‘stage’’ another entertaining programme on the 9th instant in conjunction with the Symons-Eilb wood-Short Trio, Miss Gwen Shepherd herself will give Anne Boleyn’s appéal to Henry VIII, This is an au thentic letter written by the ill-fated queen while she was in prison. This; pathetic epistle has been adapted by iss Shepherd for elocutionary purposes, and it has proved one of her greatest successes itt costume. Her humorous items will include the story of a bulldog. Miss Alma Clegg’s rich mezzo-so-! prano voice will again he heard, and: Mrs, Fred Collins, who sang at WN Shepherd’s first drawing-room evening, | and whose beautiful contralto voice svas anuch appreciated, will also sing.

Mr. R, &. Allwright’s splendid baritone voice will be heard to agévantage in "fhe Devout Lover," and, in more humorous vein, "Wimmin, O Wimmint’? , Mr. Claude Mass, champion vocalist’ of the Wellington Competitions of 1922, ts a well-known and popular concert artist. One of the most important of his recent engagements is as soloist in "A Tale of Old Japan," toe be presented by the New Plymouth Choral Society. His contributions on Friday evening will be heard in **The Arrow and the Song,’’ and two of Alfred Hill’s latest Maori songs, of which he is a notable exponent, Mr. William McKeown's pleasing teter voice will find adequate scope in Herman Lohr’s "‘ftalian Boat Song.’ In this own inimitable way, ‘tic is a raconteur of outstanding ability. Me will also impart an element of humour *o the evening's entertainment.