... ROTHESAY BOOKING Rothesay Council have appointed W. Hewson Maw as band leader and organist for the 1957 season. He was organist there last summer. The band will have the organ as a basis and will be augmented by a five-piece combination, with three musicians doubling other instru ments. ...

... STORMY MEETING AT RHYL RHYL CoanciT* entertainment* committee meeting in December was attended by the treasurer at the request of the full council in order to discus* the half-yearly financial statement of the council to Septem ber 30. 9 Owing to the bad summer, tak ings were down on the skating rink, hire of beach chairs, pier tolls and swimming pool, and the only hope to balance the ...

... IT WAS A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AFTER ALL r these trying times no season seems to be without its diffi culties hut despite prevailing con ditions, this year's Christmas season appeared to be its usual active self so far as concert artists were con cerned. It had been thought that petrol rationing would have had a greater effect on the number of people go ing away, but the railways were busier than ...

... GLASGOW PLANS AMATEUR FESTIVAL GLASGOW plans to stage an amateur festival of music and drama during 1957. but it will not be a rival to the Edinburgh Festi val. A joint sub-committee has been set up to consider the proposal. Plan is to hold the festival over a period of three or four weeks, probably in ihe autumn. It would be open to Corporation clubs and community centres as well as to clubs ...

... OLDEST MINSTREL DIES Alfred j. wentworth. who at 101 was Britain's oldest minstrel, died on December 21 at an old people's home at Charlton Kings. Cheltenham. As a young man, Mr. Wentworth founded a troop of minstrels in his native Wandsworth. They performed in the Isle of Wight during summer seasons, and became known as the Wentworth troop of Royal Osborne minstrels after they had appeared ...

... O.A.Ps' PARTY A concert, arranged by Tiny Ransom, followed the fifth annual dinner of St. Clement's Old Age Pensioners at Lcigh-on-Sca, when some enjoyable items figured in a long programme Artists included Ben Baga, George Price. Al Danner, Cyril Draw, Bill Johnson. Gladys Middlelon, Constance Kent, and Andrew Dawn. The com pere was Arthur Ransom and some 280 old-timers were present. ...