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The Entertainment.
Cedric Dickens, voice, Liz Hayes piano, acted in concert on Thursday evening.
They gave us the Kinderszenen of Robert Schuman. Alternatively piano by Mrs.
Hayes and Mr Dickens telling appropriate stories from the novels of his Great
Ancestor. Mr. Dickens has a good performance and he had chosen nice parts of
David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Christmas Carol and Great Expectations to
accompany the beautiful played 13 pieces of Die Kinderszenen.
On Friday evening the organizing committee had for us a real Victorian pastime: a
Victorian Slides Show with a mighty Microscope see the picture in The Dutch
Dickensian Volume XXX, 2010, No 71.). Such a piece of old-fashioned handcraft
has to be operated bij two persons as it was by Mrs Mr Thelma and John Burgess.
The slides were beautiful, it is hard to realise that all were hand painted, with one-
hair brushes. Some examples: a landscape with a mill with turning wings, a large cat
with moving eyes, Grimaldi with changing eyes, the donkey ride of a lady on a
kicking donkey, a show of the highlights of Martin Chuzzlewit and at last a snoring
giant with a mouse that jumped in his throat. The slides were all of the Victorian age
some as old as from 1825! They were always very expensive they cost from £1 to
£10 when they were made!
The Music Hall was brought to life on Sunday evening. Mrs. Romy McCabe sung in
Victorian dress Victorian songs assisted by Mr. Cliff Bendall with comic scenes and
his Music Hall voice accompanied by Mr Jan say on the pianoforte. But also other
performers as Mr Malcolm Andrews Mr. Allen Clack with a comic act. Mr. Tony
Pointon with his song from the Great Duke's, Wellington, time. And a Mrs. Gamp
performance by Mrs. Susan Healey. In short a very entertaining evening, when
asked by the organizing committee if we, the delegates from the Haarlem Branch
