ON February 21st we enjoyed a delightful recital given by Miss Eve Maxwell-Lyte. This singer is a true artist in every sense of the word in that all her effects are clear but never exaggerated. The School Concert took place on the last Friday of term. The orchestra in spite of absentees-gave a good account of themselves. Buckley made his first appearance as a soloist at a School Concert, and played two pieces very musically, while the male-voice Singers were very much appreciated as usual by the audience and were made to repeat their spirited performance of" Come, landlord, fill the flowing bowl." Later in the programme Hall gave a really fineperformance of Borodin's " Au Couvent." The Choral Society sang-very well indeed, while one of the biggest rounds of applause ever heard in the gymnasium greeted Mrs. Leonard and Mr. Beresford for their duet-singing. The second half of the concert consisted of an operetta " Silence in Court."" SILENCE IN COURT." Lovers of Dr. Doolittle will not easily forget the Push me pullu a delightful and improbable beast with heads at each end of its body. The Operetta was rather like that : it was delightful and improbable but sagged a little in the middle. The entrance of the jury was excellently man-aged and they sang their choruses with a spirit which belied the indifference of their expressions. Indeed, with the exception of Mrs. Kitter master, wearing a hat which would have awed many Red Indians into respectful silence, the jury came too near the apathy of real life. Despite their-clothes they were a little too probable. But they sang clearly and vigorously. One thing notable about the soloists was the excellence of their entrances. Hall's entrance as the fussy long-winded old geezer of a judge was an effective rendering of a part which is becoming. almost a tradition (Grout-Smith in " 1066 and all that " and Hall again in " The Muni-Contest "will be remembered) . Surtees as policeman Bloggs (a credit to the force) had seemed for a short period earlier in the evening a little nervous, but he had now found his feet with a vengeance, and, weighed down as he was with a pair of boots which could comfortably have housed several families of guinea-pigs, gave his evidence with the persistence of an alarm-clock and a bon-homie which must have endeared him to his confederates. Mr. Beresford's remark that he thought he might be late was in keeping with the fantastic improbability of the rest of the plot. The prisoner showed himself a man of considerable resource and revealed a laudable sense ofjustice in telling the judge who had just dismissed him that he had pinched his watch. His defending counsel looked most imposing and sang both vigorously and well, while Hall was asgood as ever.Whether or not the final chorus was inspired by Lord Woolton or Sir Kaye Le Fleming itwas sung with great gusto and suitably rounded off the performance.The law we are told is "an ass " and we may well believe it. At all events clever acting,•(including some well-timed horseplay), good singing, and lively production made " Silencein Court," despite the occasional banality of the words, an enjoyable conclusion to the evening.
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